Two national-security experts have issued a report through the Heritage Foundation that warns Obama administration officials to start working now to prevent – and mitigate the damage from – an electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States, because of the potential for "unimaginable devastation."
"Not even a global humanitarian effort would be enough to keep hundreds of millions of Americans from death by starvation, exposure, or lack of medicine. Nor would the catastrophe stop at U.S. borders. Most of Canada would be devastated, too, as its infrastructure is integrated with the U.S. power grid. Much of the world's intellectual brain power (half of it is in the United States) would be lost as well. Earth would most likely recede into the 'new' Dark Ages," states the report by James J. Carafano, the deputy director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, and Richard Weitz, senior fellow and director of the Center for Politial-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute.
The report, which is described by the Heritage Foundation as a "backgrounder," is titled "EMP Attacks – What the U.S. Must Do Now" and was released just days ago, says what is needed right now is for the government to "prevent the threat," by pursuing "an aggressive protect-and-defend strategy, including comprehensive missile defense; modernizing the U.S. nuclear deterrent; and adopting proactive nonproliferation and counterproliferation measures."
Further, measures are needed to add to the "resilience" of the electrical grid and telecommunications systems, including duplicating some essential functions, and "robust" pre-disaster planning should be going on now for "federal, state, local private-sector, non-government organizations and international support," the report said.
Especially, the nation needs to work to "protect the capacity to communicate," the report explains
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"An EMP strike can easily obliterate America's electrical, telecommunications, transportation, financial, food,and water infrastructures, rendering the United States helpless to coordinate actions and deliver services essential for daily life," says the report.
"In the words of Arizona Sen. John Kyl, EMP 'is one of only a few ways that the United States could be defeated by its enemies.' The time to prepare is now!"
The new report echoes the warnings carried in a story first broken in WND five years ago about a blue-ribbon commission appointed by Congress to investigate the impact of an EMP attack on the U.S.
An EMP catastrophe, which scientists have warned also could come through a naturally occurring Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun, largely is feared to come from an act of war from an enemy.
If there is a nuclear explosion high in the atmosphere over North America the resulting electromagnetic discharge can "permanently disable the electrical systems that run nearly all civilian and military infrastructures," the report said.
"A massive EMP attack on the United States would produce almost unimaginable devastation. Communications would collapse, transportation would halt, and electrical power would simply be non-existent," the report warns.
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This also means the Police State set up in America to control the population would become in jeopardy. What is the likelihood of that happening?
More likely that we will, plan to, or are pulsing others don't you think?
Its all smoke and mirrors for the government to completely take over the people of the USA and most of the people are stupid enough to let it happen...
im sure in the not too distant future it will in fact happen. it will come down to either the people taking power liberty and freedom back or simply rolling over and letting it happen.
As it in now the Police have too much power and too much technology in their favor. cops used to have to actually do their job but now they just push a button and can dig up anything they want on a person.
The world was a safer place 30 years ago and there was a reason there was far less technology in the hands of people and that was a good thing
Technology is being used to imprison people. They are setting up an electronic control grid. All this time we were cheering NASA as if they were heroes. Meanwhile, they were establishing a huge spying operation against our privacy.
The police state is already here. Cameras take your picture when you are in public and store the photograph forever...for what purpose? Unmarked vans patrol the streets x-raying your car and house without your knowledge or consent. The Patriot Act (cheered on by millions of idiotic lemmings) emasculated the Bill of Rights. Computers and phone trasmissions are "monitored" 24-7 by a dozen different government agencies. U.S. active duty military are now involved in the enforcement of civilian law (which is prohibited by law, for what THAT'S worth). Secret trials and imprisonment of US citizens now occur regularly (how do you think THAT would go over with John Adams or Thomas Jefferson?). And STILL-- millions of citizens just nod their head and smile -- "if you're not doing anything wrong, why worry about the Bill of Rights"???
1:45 Anon - And under who's administration did these practices start?
For all of you Obama haters - it didn't start under HIS term!
Thank George W. and Darth Vader Chaney for all this stuff!
They saw a perfect opportunity (which some still say was our own government's doing) and too full advantage of it.
It's not the Democrats who have and want to turn us all into prisoners - it's the Republicans.
thats why my truck is a cable throttle diesel.same as military,EMP proof.
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