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The Electromagnetic Pulse - New Weapon of Mass Destruction

By Roger O’Daniel

A lot of scary misinformation is roaming the public media. The threat is real, but usually exaggerated. A single neutron bomb cannot destroy the infrastructure of an entire nation, a hemisphere, or the entire planet. It is not a “doomsday” weapon. A Faraday shield can protect sensitive items from harm, unless they connect with unshielded hardware. Direct damage is limited by the strength of the pulse. The pulse only lasts for a fraction of a second with no residual effect. Only the consequences remain, but they are awesome and long lasting. Solar flares from the sun can create electromagnetic pulses.

The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is a potential danger that is less awesome than a nuclear air burst over a major city because there is no incinerating fireball and mushroom cloud to vaporize or kill everything beneath the air burst. The best (and most understandable) source about the EMP threat is found in the National Geographic website. Search for “EMP”. Their on-line store offers a DVD video, available only in the USA. Contrary to popular opinion, an EMP affects only a limited area with the intensity needed to cause catastrophic damage. However, that affected area could create secondary havoc in connected surrounding areas. If more than one neutron bomb explodes precisely at the same time while positioned in a strategic pattern, the combination force could focus a higher-intensity pulse on a target, or damage a larger area.

One fact the National Geographic article hints but does not explain is the very real danger of an EMP generated by our sun. We are in for some rather active sunspot activity in the 2012-2013 time periods.

How does it work?

When a whole boatload of free neutrons hit the earth above our lower atmosphere (troposphere), they not only trash our satellites with gusto, but also hit rarified atmospheric particles. These particles shed electrons, creating a wave of electrons that move through our Van Allen belt. This is a magnetic force field that surrounds the earth. The interaction creates an electromagnetic wave that eventually hits the surface of the earth. Any exposed conductors respond to this wave with a surge of electric current at super-high voltage. Any unprotected electronics, no matter how small, also get zapped and fried.

Although the EMP lasts at most only a fraction of a second, the damage it causes is huge. Electronic ignition systems in automobiles fry. Transportation stops. Diesels may continue to run, but cannot restart. Power lines melt. Transformers explode. Power plant generators melt down. Communication systems fry. Any aircraft that rely on electrical or hydraulic controls instead of mechanical controls, fall out of the sky or sit on the ground useless. Refrigerators and freezers no longer work because the electric motors in their compressors fry. Furnace controls don’t work. Air conditioners don’t work. Lights and traffic signals, electric trams, manufacturing machinery, computers, network switches and Internet appliances all fry. Emergency power units cease to function and battery packs explode. Farm machinery doesn’t work. Even electrical spare parts burn out. Food spoils or lays fallow in fields unharvested with no way to get it to market. Oil and gas remains at the wellhead. Electrical emergency shutoff valves don’t close. Refineries shut down or lose process control.

The worst damage of an EMP follows the pulse as the population in the affected area discovers that it is been blasted back into the stone age. We do not know how to deal with that. By the time we rebuild our infrastructure in at least a couple years, much of the population has died from panic riots, starvation, disease, or moved away the best way they could until a herculean effort restores the infrastructure to normal. The EMP is the match that starts the destruction that takes years to recover.

There is also the collateral damage caused by a military response and potential nuclear exchange. That may become the doomsday weapon feared by all.

Tags: EMP, WMD, bomb, doomsday, military, neutron, nuclear, war, weapon

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Comment by Lee Brewer on April 17, 2012 at 9:33pm: Wow - this sounds like it could actually do almost as much damage to us as Obama has!

Comment by cj in tx on April 17, 2012 at 10:31am: When Trucks Stop, America Stops

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=298951810176065

Prepared by the American Trucking Associations

A very good article you will be interested to read. It breaks down in detail just a small piece of this.

Comment by Greg on April 17, 2012 at 4:31am: I recently attended a conference where the idea of an EMP attack was discussed. Main speaker was Dr. Wm. Fortchen (sic?), the author of "One Second After" a novel about what would happen after an EMP attack. He pointed out how a bill had been introduced in Congress which would do a lot to protect us against EMP. It had backing, but was ultimately killed by a committee chairwoman because it didn't include the pork she wanted. Such are the ways of our government- to hell with America and her people, it's all about the lawmakers' money and power.

Comment by tom dodd on April 17, 2012 at 12:52am: ...CALM down, Dennis, eh? IF an adversary wanted to "take out" the USA, and do so with the ability to walk in at their leisure a month or two later, and not worry about radiation, 3 nuc's, launched by missiles, exploding around 300 miles up, equally spaced across the land, would pretty much do us in. WHY be concerned about taking out a single city, or a couple of cities, when ya can get the whole shebang with 3 missile launched nuc's, launched from fishing trawlers 300 miles out to sea ~ we'd only have a couple of minutes to respond... these would not only knock us back to the 1800's economically, but the satellites that would have monitored the launches would also be fried...

...SO the "bad guys" come marching in a couple of months later, and what do they find? A lot of dead bodies! Those who needed meds are dead... half of the population is dead from starvation or about to be, especially if the attack occurred in the middle of winter... the other half is fighting amongst itself over whatever "assets" remain, because the gangs will have already EATEN the liberals stuck in the cities, and will be roaming the land looking for whatever they can find...

Comment by DENNIS YOUNG on April 17, 2012 at 12:35am: SORRY ,,, BUT THE EMP WEAPON "IS" A NUCLEAR WEAPON. A LOWER YIELD WEAPON, BUT STILL A NUCLEAR WEAPON, AND AS LARGE OR LARGER THAN THAN THE 20 KILOTONS DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA. ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS EMIT AN "EMP" PULSE, BUT NOT AS LARGE AS THE "EMP" WEAPON. IT IS ENHANCED IN SUCH A WAY AS TO CREATE A LARGER EMP PULSE. GRANTED THE EMP WEAPON IS DETONATED AT QUITE A HIGH ALTITUDE, BUT IT IS STILL NUCLEAR. A NON NUCLEAR EMP DEVICE HAS BEEN DEVELOPED, BUT IS NOT AS EASY TO USE AS THE NUCLEAR DEVICE. A LARGE NON NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVE DEVICE IS NECESSARY TO MAKE IT, AND IS NOT AS POWERFUL AS THE NUCLEAR DEVICE. IF ONE OF OUR ENEMIES SNEAKS A NUCLEAR WEAPON INTO NEW YORK HARBOR ON A FREIGHTER,,, AND DETONATES IT,,, THE EMP FROM THE NUKE WILL WIPE OUT NEW YORK,,,, THEY DON'T NEED NUCLEAR MISSILES..

Comment by tom dodd on April 16, 2012 at 11:48pm: ...I LIKE the way you think, Ron!

Contributor Comment by Roger O'Daniel on April 16, 2012 at 11:31pm: The London Telegraph wrote an article and included pictures taken by the IAEA on their last Iran inspection trip. If you want to know what centrifuges look like, here is the link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059462/UN-report-Iran-IS-t...

Contributor Comment by Roger O'Daniel on April 16, 2012 at 10:50pm: @Ron, once the EMP hits the ground, it is done in. Those centrifuges are deeply housed inside a mountain.

I wrote and published a post on PAN-2, "The Iran Problem and the Military Option." The blog title is "Advice and Counsel." I think I also planted it on this site as well.

I have some ideas that I shared confidentially with a retired Lt. General of the US Air Force who may have passed on to the right places. I dare not publish them on a blog. According to "Clicky", I received hits from Israel, Kirkuk Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Pakistan, Greece, France, Germany, Spain, the UK, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, China via Hong Kong, Japan, and Turkey.

My Middle-East articles are getting a lot of attention overseas. They are especially interested in my piece titled, "Oil, Religion & Politics - The Next Perfect Storm." One of the "thumbs- up" comments came from the CEO of an investigation firm in Israel. That post is only available on PAN-2 because it has ten maps and charts. I did not have the time, energy or patience to move the assembly over to PAN-1. If you want the direct link, here it is.

http://Wisesooth.PatriotActionNetwork.com

Look under the category "Military."

Comment by Ron on April 16, 2012 at 10:21pm: I've heard a lot of talk about EMP so I've always wonder why instead of worrying about some one using it on our country why don't we use it on countries like Iran? We fry there electronics and they can't run there centrifuge's and for the most part would put a stop to there nuclear programs and may-be send a notice that who ever else wants there electricity shut off just let us know.

Comment by Denis Palmer on April 16, 2012 at 9:57pm: there is a miss conception,EMP pulses do not destroy most coils and points are not hurt, the same with Vacuum tubes of the passed, I worked on the first electronics designed to survive the emp of a nuclear blast, a farad ay cahe will protect to some extent, as will shielding,,, Transorbs will also work, if connected properly, it will not effect starter motors and many pieces of equipment now are designed with protections in place,

the EMP protection circuits were designed in the early 80's and incorporated into many devices, the same circuits that protect against static, the portable generator, is wire and insulators, these devices are not harmed,

Capacitors can be broken down by the pulse, but if they have there leads wired together, they will be untouched, a emp is created to test the circuits in some labs, and you can be killed if you are to close to the pulse or unprotected, if a emp strong enough to destroy all electronics is delivered, I think many people will be killed by this pulse, anything that can conduct electricity has a electric current generated within, this current and voltage can be deadly, but like being struck by lightning, some live and some do not,