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

You forgot that O[bama] said that he would not retaliate, so its open season on us.

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Louis N. Molino, Sr. <lnmolino@aol.com>wrote:

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> I don't know if MAD would apply. Say Libya had some nukes (multiple even
> for arguments sake) they launch a few towards us and Israel again for the
> scenario. Assuming we kept Israel on a short leash as we have with SCUDS and
> the possible use of or threat of the use of BIO and or CHEM stuff in the
> oh not so distant past.
>
> I see the rest of the planet turning their back on Libya real fast and that
> carton showing where Libya use to be as being a cake of New Mexico Glass
> being very real. Or in this case we now have a use for those Neutron Bombs
> which were one of two good things to come from the Carter era.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
> To: californiadisasters <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sun, Mar 20, 2011 6:19 pm
> Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Electromagnetic Pulse: Effects on the
> U.S. Power Grid
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> *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.
>
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> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:04 PM, James Nelson <jnelson_lifesaver@yahoo.com
> > wrote:
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>> 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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