EMP Attack
http://online.wsj.com/articles/james-woolsey-and-peter-vincent-pry-the-…
Anyone know anything about this? How possible it is, what the government has done to protect against it?
we have a fairly robust missile shield at this point... we also have Chuck Norris.
This is something that concerns me deeply, even more than Ebola, terrorist attacks, economic depression, natural disasters. An EMP attack would completely cripple the world since anything that runs on power will no longer work. Basically we'll be back to 1800 in a second. Truly scary, and we haven't done anything to prepare for it. We actually came dangerously close in July 2012 when the Sun emitted a super powerful flare. If that had happened a week earlier, we would be toast right now.
Sounds like pretty crazy stuff, probably going to look into this and try to learn a little bit more
A nuke-generated EMP has gotta be a relatively large nuke detonated in the upper atmosphere (above 100,000 ft). The only way to get a nuke up there is really a rocket (ex: ICBM) which, because of the cold war, we have spent billions of dollars and conducted several decades of R&D on systems to detect and and shoot down. This isn't something you can just smuggle into the country in the back of a van. The only countries with known ICBMs are us, the UK, Russia, China, France, Israel, India, and North Korea (lol).
An EMP attack just isn't something worth worrying about. A massive solar flare, ala mbavsmfin, is a much more likely threat.
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Wow, you must be old if you can pull The Day After out... I love how bad special effects were back then and how they just edited a bunch of old bomb tests to make it even more dramatic.
I'll get back to you on that PM. Sorry got tied up on some other stuff.
Is that a young John Lithgow in the first scene?
Nah I'm on the younger end on this site...I love The Day After and Threads though. Still get sweaty palms whenever I watch them.
life's too short to give a damn about things you can't control...like this.
I agree. It's about as useful as worrying that an asteroid is going to strike, or getting angry at exclamation points. Would an EMP, asteroid strike, a mega volcano eruption under Yellowstone or any other calamity that's constantly played on the History Channel really ruin your day? Sure. But your ability to do anything about it is 0.
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