"Anyway, what's a terrorist bomb as opposed to an ordinary bomb, I mean
an official bomb, you know, one a government owns or something, with a
flag painted on it?"
Keith Addison
7/1/2005
10:30 GMT
Keith Addison wrote:
Hello Rich
On C-SPAN, June 21 2005, I saw a fascinating account on how a
terrorist nuclear attack can disable/destroy all our electronic
devices: computers,PDAs, cellular phones, TVs, TIVOs, pagers, even
many cars, trucks and RVs. All of these devices dead, made
inoperable,useless, so many doorstops and paperweights created by
a terrorist nuclear bomb/missile's ElectroMagnetic Pulse (EMP).
EMP can disable electronics as far away as 3700 miles.
Maybe in theory. The atmosphere N-tests didn't do that, did they?
Roscoe Bartlett's presentation on C-SPAN showed that such an
attack can disable the american economy for a long time, set it
back at least a hendred (100) years and create millions of
casualties.
But EMP is not exactly news, or at least it's very old news. I wonder
if anyone can tell me why the US, military and otherwise, paid EMP so
little attention during the Cold War era - AFAIK the military gear
wasn't/isn't EMP-proof, yet the Soviet stuff was. I think the Soviet
Foxbat for instance is mainly mechanical, with minimal electronics.
Maybe the electronics faction of the old military-industrial complex
wouldn't have got their cut otherwise?
Anyway, what's a terrorist bomb as opposed to an ordinary bomb, I mean
an official bomb, you know, one a government owns or something, with a
flag painted on it? One's in uniform, the other maybe isn't, but do
you think the EMP will notice?
Since the damage can be so great and so widespread, we are ALL in
it together.
EMP's not so bad, at least if that's all that's bothering you then at
least you survived the blast, and maybe even the radiation. So far
anyway, these things tend to escalate. EMP, blast and radiation,
you've all been in it together for 50 years or more, and so have we.
The banks WILL be affected. The consumers WILL be affected.
If it happens, otherwise they won't be affected. You seem to take it
as a given that it will happen. I wouldn't say it won't happen, but
isn't this just a bit (yet another bit) of scare-mongering that you're
falling for? Severe earthquakes definitely will happen in San
Francisco and Tokyo, some time or other, but meanwhile life goes on.
They don't pretend it won't happen, but they get on with life anyway.
What was the last thing that was definitely going to mean the end of
CAWKI, let alone the economy, Y2K wasn't it? The last thing other than
Saddam's massive stockpiles of WMDs, that is. LOL!
Shock-horror is the wrong response, it's likely to have the opposite
of the desired effect, just as lashing out at Afghanistan and Iraq
have done, leaving Americans much less safe than they were before, and
probably increasing the chances of a terrorist nuclear attack.
Maybe C-SPAN should have aired "Dr Strangelove" instead.
Best wishes
Keith
The buainesses' operations WILL be disrupted. If customers can't
get money out of the banks, they WON'T be able to buy your product
or service. Let me stress it again: we are ALL in this together.
You WON'T be able to get on the Internet (assuming that all your
electronics haven't been destroyed first) UNLESS your ISP can
itself get on the Internet.
Yet, there is hope in the form of defensive measures. Enter these
words in the Google search box :"shielded rooms" or "EMP" or
"NEMP" or "Faraday cages" or "anechoic chamber".
I have NO business interests in the companies mentioned.
The Polyphaser Corporation
<http://www.polyphaser.com/>www.polyphaser.com
Here are some Pointers:
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*The Electromagnetic Bomb - a Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction
*
<http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/kopp/apjemp.html>http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/kopp/apjemp.html
Nuclear Weapons Effects
<http://Www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/intro/nuke-effects.htm>Www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/intro/nuke-effects.htm
*Nuclear Weapon EMP Effects
*<http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/emp.htm>http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/emp.htm
Electromagnetic Pulse
<http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/classes/2001Fall/Phyx135-2/19/emp.htm>http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/classes/2001Fall/Phyx135-2/19/emp.htm
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