>> Congress was warned Thursday that North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. today with a nuclear EMP bomb that could indefinitely shut down the electric power grid and kill 90 percent of "all Americans" within a year.
Bunk. This is gross exaggeration ... actually, staggering exaggeration. All the Power Lines would still be intact - they would NOT 'melt and fry'. Transformers, switches and fuses would be replaced. Generators replaced, chips in motors replaced - the capacity of this country to rebuild is totally underestimated. And 90% dying - nope, won't happen. We can live without electricity, and transportation would be restored within weeks, for getting produce to an from markets. Tractors, farm equipment - all repairable. Cars - expensive electronics, but replaceable. Older model vehicles (pre-computer) easily repairable. I question that the power plants would be very effected - especially nuclear power plants. There's a helluvva lot of shielding that is innate in their very structures.
The key to this article is We WANT MONEY FOR MORE EMP WORK - and apparently they are willing to use doomsday scare tactics in order to achieve that result.
I could (but won't) walk through the calculations of total energy released by an x-megaton nuclear device, and compare that to total energy of a single bolt of lightning, direct strike, use radius-squared energy density and all that other stuff ... but gonna tell ya right now - no way does it add up to anywhere close to what is being claimed.
Same type of scare tactic being used (attempted) by NASA on the 'Yellowstone SuperVolcano' doomsday crap.
It's all about getting more of the gubmint teat. Just like the 'global warming' hoax.
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