EMPs: The Next Terrorist Threat?
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Yup. That’s why military systems are generally hardened. It’s hard to know how well those precautions will work, though. It only takes one flaw or failure point to let enough energy into a system to fry it. Normal commercial equipment will be toast, however.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:55 pmhttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69280
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/congress/2004_r/04-07-22emp.pdf
Im ok with that, my kids watch to much TV anyway.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:40 pmMilitary hardware is poorly shielded today. Nothing like it was in the early 80’s.
Faster, lighter, quicker are counter to EMP shielding.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:44 pmCan we set off a small one over D.C.??
July 14th, 2008 at 3:54 pmYupe I’ve been staring at this one for about 15 years.
Every plane falls out of the sky.
Every vehicle with a computer or electronic ignition just fails.
It’s no joke and it ain’t about watching T.V.
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July 14th, 2008 at 6:15 pmThis affects anything that uses electricity.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:26 pmCars, trucks, computers and electrical grid.
Another thought: the way to thwart EMP is to wrap your device in a copper sheathing. That way the electrical charge is made to go around the device.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:29 pmWhat EMP does is to overload an electrical system with too much electricity, so it gets fried.
Oh yeah the worries about this have been on the radar for a long time now. its a very scary and very real possibility. to put it it simply, a nation could not recover from something like this. it would completely shut down all business which means there would never be enough revenue coming to fix the damage.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:51 pmThere are some measures you can take:
http://www.aussurvivalist.com/nuclear/empprotection.htm
Life could be hard, but it’s generally better than the alternative. We managed to function without electricity for the most part 100 years ago. I had relatives in the Ozarks that didn’t have electricity until the 1950’s. We could recover - it will just require some real work.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:02 pm