[californiadisasters] Re: Electromagnetic Pulse: Effects on the U.S. Power Grid

If you are interested in more information and/or helping to get legislation passed to
help protect America's Electric Grid, please refer to www.empactamerica.org

I participated in the "In the Dark" workshop last year and am active with EMPactAmerica.

Yes, EMP and major solar threats are a concern. Yes, all it takes is a suitcase nuke at 60
miles apogee over America to but us in the horse and buggy era, without the horse and
buggy. Yes, Iran has successfully test two missiles suitable, are building a missile base
in Venezuela (although the tests were conducted from a ship), and yes they have an
intent to use EMP. And yes, America does not have any missile detection nor defense
system suitable to defend from an attack launched from submarines, the Gulf nor
Venezuela.

Yes, EMP is part of official first strike doctrine of both Russia and China. Yes, Russia
(and likely China) now have "enhanced EMP", but rogue nations/groups can leverage
"deniability" hence renders MAD as an obsolete notion.

Have a great day,
+Roger
rlf@fraumann.com

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--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@...> wrote:
>
> *M.A.D. would still apply in this scenario.... any nation launching an
> E.M.P. attack upon the U.S. would A) Risk getting nuked right out of the
> starting gates before their vehicles even launched their warheads as we saw
> their launches from orbit and tracked their I.C.B.M.'s headed towards our
> homeland as we could not know they were not actually armed with regular
> nukes and B) Assuming we waited to counterstrike after we experienced the
> effects of the E.M.P. attack we would reserve the right to treat the attack
> as a regular nuclear attack and counterstrike with actual nukes aimed at
> ground targets bearing in mind that our essential military assets have their
> electronics hardened against E.M.P. effects leaving the civilian sector of
> our civilization to suffer whatever E.M.P. effects the attack achieved.
>
> Kimmer*
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:04 PM, James Nelson
> <jnelson_lifesaver@...>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Granted, Forstchen's talks about a terrorism scenario with multiple nuke
> > air bursts over different parts of the country (remember the 'missile
> > launch' off of the west coast last fall?) but as Kim points out, it could be
> > a natural cause like a large CME... It doesn't sound like the system would
> > withstand any large hit.
> >
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> >
> >
>
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