North Korea threatened an attack on the U.S. power grid using electromagnetic pulses to knock out electricity throughout America. The warning came directly from the state news agency.
Experts told the Fox News that North Korea could actually pull off the attack by detonating a hydrogen bomb at high altitude, which would create an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that would knock out key infrastructure in parts of the United States.
"The biggest danger would be shorting out of the power grid, especially on the East Coast," Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told Fox News. "Imagine a situation where large sections of the U.S. had no power.”
"Imagine New York or Washington D.C. with no power for just a week. The implications would be hard to fathom. The casualty rates would be off the charts,"
An EMP, something that appears more like Hollywood fiction like in "The Matrix" movies, can cause more damage at higher elevations, Fox News noted. A detonation at 250 miles, a distance of roughly of the International Space Station, could fry electronics in most of the U.S. along with parts of Canada and Mexico.
James Woolsey, former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1993 to 1995, warned of such an attack during an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune in March.
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Details of such a thing are depicted in the novel, "One Second After." The EMP attack on the U.S. takes the nation back to about 1880 in terms of technology.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the mountain region it slow the blast down.
ReplyDeleteThis would disable or destroy not only electric power, but everything that has a computer chip in it, which is every modern means of travel, shipping, communication, health care and defense. This is the one where planes fall out of the sky, everyone with a pacemaker dies, cars stop moving and nobody can call home. The military is rendered almost useless, industry comes to an immediate halt, crops rot in the fields, looting and shooting are commonplace, mass starvation is a reality and government is fragmented and powerless.
ReplyDelete11:02 Sounds like a good time to get right with God
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable.
DeleteWhy aren't shooting down his missiles as soon as he launches them?
ReplyDeleteN K won't exist much Longer ...don't worry !!!
ReplyDeleteJust do it and get it the hell over with... Enough with this damn fear mongering... Either you live life everyday or you hide like a coward under a rock which in the end still won't help or save you...
ReplyDeleteIf they do it, I hope it happens over DC. Might give us a break from those morons on the Hill, if you know what I mean.
ReplyDeleteTo bad the NK bozos won't be around to celebrate.
ReplyDeleteDon't doubt that North Korea already has several atomic bombs in place around several major cities in America. He actually doesn't need missiles since he has planted them is safe housed around the county with North Koreans who came in from our open southern border.
ReplyDeleteHow did the atomic bombs arrive? It is only a matter of them being delivered by several of his 74 submarines and transferred by fishing vessels rented by the illegal North Koreans already in place.
We won't know what hit us.