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nk EMP attack could ‘shut down US power grid and kill 90%

Post by cronus » Tue Oct 17, 2017 2:38 pm

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 02756.html

EMP attack could ‘shut down US power grid and kill 90% of Americans’

Experts have warned Congress that it is ignoring a newly-developed weapon from North Korea which could shut down the US power grid and kill the vast majority of Americans within a year.

Two members of the disbanded congressional Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) commission said at a recent House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing that a nuclear EMP attack from Kim Jong Un was the “biggest threat” to the US yet it remains “unacknowledged” by the government.

More attention has been focused on the regime’s continued testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles this year, but the dictatorship also recently claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb underground in September.

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Post by pErvinalia » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:34 pm

You'll let us know when it happens.
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Re: nk EMP attack could ‘shut down US power grid and kill 90

Post by cronus » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:41 pm

pErvin wrote:You'll let us know when it happens.
If 90% of Americans die would the remaining 10% notice? :tea:
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Re: nk EMP attack could ‘shut down US power grid and kill 90

Post by Forty Two » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:57 pm

That's a big problem, but I don't think it's a risk particular to North Korea's nukes. It's really the reality of any nuclear attack. All nuclear weapons emit an EMP. There are devices out there that are enhanced EMP weapons, though. The US has them. Russia has them. China has them, etc.

And, taking down the US electrical system is a solid way to knock us back to the the 17th century. Same with any western country, though.

People will die on a massive scale if that happened, and it would, likely, be the end of the United States. What would emerge would definitely be a police state, because the result of a loss of power for an extended period of time is anarchy and massive internecine violence.
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Re: nk EMP attack could ‘shut down US power grid and kill 90

Post by NineBerry » Tue Oct 17, 2017 4:01 pm

Forty Two wrote:People will die on a massive scale if that happened, and it would, likely, be the end of the United States. What would emerge would definitely be a police state, because the result of a loss of power for an extended period of time is anarchy and massive internecine violence.
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