Thursday, December 27, 2012

North Korea EMP attack could destroy U.S. — now

PRY: North Korea EMP attack could destroy U.S. — now: "North Korea has labored for years and starved its people so it could develop an intercontinental missile capable of reaching the United States. Why? Because they have a special kind of nuclear weapon that could destroy the United States with a single blow."
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  1. LuxJanuary 1, 2013 at 2:05 PM

    Thanks for making the EMP threat an issue again. It needs to be common knowledge. People need to know how bad it could be.

    http://beforeitsnews.com/survival/2012/12/out-with-a-bang-how-bad-could-an-emp-attack-be-2454182.html

    I was recently reading about the Starfish Prime testing back in the 1960’s (1962?). The device used was a 1.4 megaton device if I am not mistaken. It caused damage to electrical systems in Hawaii which was about 1000 miles away. Come to find out, Uranium type fission only devices are way more efficient at producing EMP pulses than the larger fusion devices. One 10 kiloton pure Fission devices can produce an EMP that is 40 percent of the 1.44 megaton Starfish Prime device. It would appear that two or three 10 kiloton devices would be equivalent to one B-83 (1.2 megaton device which is a part of the U.S. active arsenal) . Here is the source:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

    This should be interesting reading in regard to the size, type and number of devices needed to produce an effective EMP attack (in particular, the section on weapon yield).
    So the point is 1960’s high technology is not need for an EMP attack. 1940’s high technology will work just fine.

    Lux

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