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Key points:
The White House would not even know Iran’s EMP attack had begun, before it was all over.
An Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) event could be caused deliberately by detonating a nuclear bomb in the atmosphere above the US or near its coast.
It could also be caused by a giant solar flare that would fry all electronics, indefinitely. Giant solar flares happen frequently. We've been lucky none has hit us since the computer age.
The EMP immediate consequences is the collapse of the electrical grid and all electronics. No laptops, cell phones, transportation, no credit cards, no banks - nothing that depends on computers.
Food distribution would stop, leading to widespread famine.
Hospitals would be reduced to bare minimum care (19th century level).
The worst would be the meltdown of nuclear power plants, spreading lethal radiation all over the country.
Most articles on EMP fail to mention its CATASTROPHIC effect on nuclear power plants.
This threat has been criminally neglected by government, which has failed to prepare for at least the replacement of the electrical grid.
There is no contingency plan if a major EMP event happens.
The main threat to humankind is not climate change but radioactive poisoning from a nuclear power plant (NPP) accident, from an earthquake-triggered NPP meltdown, from a solar flare collapsing the grid, or from a deliberate EMP attack.
Iran - steeped deeply in religious dogma and an ideology of supremacy - has sanctioned the use of an EMP attack on the US.
A “secret” Iranian military handbook confirms that Iran is including in its arsenal a plan to launch a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack on the American national grid system.
EMP as a weapon
This EMP Nuclear Weapon is detonated at a technically easily reachable high-altitude of about 50 kilometers above a given targeted battlefield area, doesn’t harm a fly, destroys all the electronics within about 750 kilometers of the blast radius, and leaves non-electronic World War II-vintage weapons like regular guns like Kalashnikovs and Katyushas totally unaffected.
The effects
Many of the essential systems needed to survive war would be knocked out, as computers are instantly rendered malfunctioning or unusable.
Military and communications systems such as radars, antennas, and missiles, government offices, would be put out of use, as would energy sources such as nuclear power stations and transport and communications systems including airports, airplanes, railways, cars and cell phones.
The US Defense Threat Reduction Agency and USSTRATCOM website has to say about this new type of nuclear weapon:
"One of the dangers of a nuclear weapon – even one too small or too far away to kill or harm anyone – is the electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. While a blast of radiation might not do anything to properly protected troops, it would “fry” anything electronic: laptops, sensors, our highly computerized planes, even a simple cell phone. A weapon that doesn’t kill a single person could still destroy our technology."
Pentagon reopens Cheyenne Mountain
Days after Iran deal, Pentagon acts fearing nuclear missile attack that would burn out America’s electronic-based defenses.
The Pentagon has decided to reopen the Cheyenne Mountain Air Defense facility, which housed the heart of America’s air and missile defense of North America. The facility had been mothballed in a “cost-saving” move in 2006.
World War 3 concerns kept the Cheyenne Mountain Complex filled with activity until a decade ago when federal officials declared that Russia was “no longer a threat.”
Last week, Admiral William Gortney, head of US NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) and US Northern Command, reversed that decision and announced the Pentagon was spending an opening ante of $700 million to oversee reactivation of the Cheyenne mountain-embedded facility.
The reason - the Pentagon's fears of a nuclear Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack by a missile that would burn out America’s overly-dependent defense, which is based on modern electronics.
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