Wow, the "greatest nation on earth" running scared of some bluster? Who'd thunk it?

Do you also disagree with the Quoted Words of Dr. Graham and Dr. Pry?

I did when Graham co-wrote the same dysfunctional, militaristic appeal to the paranoid in the form of a book with James Woolsey.

And your scientific disagreement regarding an EMP Explosion over the USA is?

A "single" nuclear explosion & the resulting EMP killing 90% of America within a year? You believe that crap?

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How is that a curse?

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What's all this about the power grid being knocked out for a long period. Not going to happen, most of the grid would be back up and functioning within 5 hours.

What's all this about the power grid being knocked out for a long period. Not going to happen, most of the grid would be back up and functioning within 5 hours.

There will be some damage but not a total melt down or all wire in the street (Puerto Rico). A lot of fuses to change and relays to reset outside the blast area.

Found this on effective range of EMP device.

A large device detonated at 400–500 km (250 to 312 miles) over Kansas would affect all of the continental U.S. The signal from such an event extends to the visual horizon as seen from the burst point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse

Line of sight from blast point puts perspective to the damage area size.

I could see Kim pulling a small one off but not a total one hit.

It would be funny if the US hits it as rises up over NK and NK takes the hit. Possible... Har

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You call it cursing the dictionary does not, it says vulgar slang which is not = cursing, they are spelled differently among other things.

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What's all this about the power grid being knocked out for a long period. Not going to happen, most of the grid would be back up and functioning within 5 hours.

There will be some damage but not a total melt down or all wire in the street (Puerto Rico).

So is this why tRump wants to pull FEMA from PR?

However I seriously question the statement that and EMP would kill 90 percent of "all Americans" within a year.". I think we are more resilient and tougher than that. A much higher percentage would survive, and DPRK will have ceased to exist in this mortal plane.

He did quote the "Washington Examiner" after all, owner Philip Anschutz, so it is just another Soros like outlet. So yes the 90% is BS intended to scare you so his investments in defense contractors make more money.

Sorry... Absolutely Incorrect Accusation.

TOTALLY CORRECT.

If this was something, then you would have been terrified for the last few decades. After all the U.S.S.R. did actual nuke EMP tests. Obviously the Russian Federation and China are capable of this and a lot more. So why aren't you quaking in you boots and staying in your bomb shelter? Is it because you know it is crap just like the partisans who called these muppets to testify so the Washington Examiner could blast it out the the fearful and paralyze you into accepting additional shackles?

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The FBI is now in Puerto Rico investigating diversion of FEMA emergency aid and supplies by local officials allegedly for their own use and enrichment.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/12/fbi-reviews-allegations-of-puerto-rican-officials-withholding-hurricane-relief/
So is the reason the relief is not getting to the people, the corrupt local officials (who by the way have been arrested in droves over the last 18 months FOR corruption including the former Mayor of San Juan)?

The bottleneck in relief is not Trump or FEMA' s doing it's the long standing tradition of political corruption in Puerto Rico. Also the reason the island is bankrupt and devoid of usable infrastructure.

But I guess Trump can be blamed................why stop the fake news now?

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The FBI is now in Puerto Rico investigating diversion of FEMA emergency aid and supplies by local officials allegedly for their own use and enrichment.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/12/fbi-reviews-allegations-of-puerto-rican-officials-withholding-hurricane-relief/
So is the reason the relief is not getting to the people, the corrupt local officials (who by the way have been arrested in droves over the last 18 months FOR corruption including the former Mayor of San Juan)?

The bottleneck in relief is not Trump or FEMA' s doing it's the long standing tradition of political corruption in Puerto Rico. Also the reason the island is bankrupt and devoid of usable infrastructure.

But I guess Trump can be blamed................why stop the fake news now?

The only semi-credible account of this story I have found, and it is also the one reported by Fox News is " The FBI are investigating to see if local officials are diverting supplies for their own use."

Stop regurgitating FAKE News.

Dismissing your use of cursing in the forums. Which many find disgusting. And I believe only self-dismisses the poster.

A destruction of the Power Grid? No transportation of food.? A possible return to subsistence farming? Which will not feed 300+ million people. Resulting in mass famine and unimaginable epidemic of disease. With very limited production, if any, of vaccines and....

Do you know?

And your scientific reason for dismissing the claims with a curse?

Stop your stupidity. As an ex-soldier/police officer/university teacher, you know better. For starters EMP will only affect that which is connected & in use. For that which is not hardened against EMP, your early warning system "should" give enough time to have that which is not protected against it to be disconnected.

Secondly, your armed forces & police have exigency plans in place. As does your medical centres.

Who needs fake news when there are plenty of scaremongers like yourself around.

BTW, as for power, you ever heard of or seen these?

Mobile Generators

For starters EMP will only affect that which is connected & in use

Are you actually 100% sure of that.

As far as I can discover, anything with a chip in will be fried on or off. Unless "hardened"

Also the electricity grid will mostly be trashed.

EMP will only affect that which is connected & in use. For that which is not hardened against EMP, your early warning system "should" give enough time to have that which is not protected against it to be disconnected.

The power grid and internet lines are always connected and in use.
There is no warning system that could disconnect or shut down grids or lines in the event of EMP.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/understanding-north-koreas-emp-threat_us_59ae115de4b0bef3378cdad9

The killing mechanism of such an attack is “elegant”; that’s my Cold War analyst past showing up as an encapsulating term. The EMP burst’s objective is to saturate the US power grid underneath it with energy flowing into the wiring. The goal is to burn out a portion of the three hundred or so high voltage transformers that link the US together as an industrial age economy. By burn out, that means causing the melting of the transformer cores rendering them useless. Repairing such damage is cumbersome. There is only one plant that manufactures these types transformers in the US and it does not even make the biggest ones needed for the US grid backbone. These have to come from factories in Europe or China and there’s a multi-year backlog for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxi1DJUDxtQ

For starters EMP will only affect that which is connected & in use

Are you actually 100% sure of that.

As far as I can discover, anything with a chip in will be fried on or off. Unless "hardened"

Also the electricity grid will mostly be trashed.

After reading your post, looked into it further. I stand corrected. However a single nuclear explosion taking everything out is still crap. For evidence of that just look at Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Outside of the EMP field created, radios still worked & what are radios?

I do not think there were may transistor radios and certainly no I/C's back then, so a moot point really.

I do not think there were may transistor radios and certainly no I/C's back then, so a moot point really.

What powered them, especially military ones?

What powered them, especially military ones?

(Miniaturized for portables) tubes and other discrete components. The first experimental transistor wasn't made until 1947.

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Understand what is being said. However, unless I'm gravely mistaken, EMP takes out all electrical/electronic components. Does that include batteries for radios, vehicles and other such items?

Does that include batteries for radios, vehicles and other such items?

No.

Does that include batteries for radios, vehicles and other such items?

As long as the vehicle has no I/C's it should be fine, which will of course eliminate all modern vehicles, emergency services included, unless they have been hardened.

Also all computers, mobile phones, two way radios will be affected