According to this vitally important report you're not allowed to see unless you pay for it, summarized here, we're all DOOMED! DOOMED, I SAY!
...experts forecast if such an attack were a success, it effectively could throw the U.S. back into an age of agriculture.Of course, there are some problems with the theory that the Iranians are blowing up their ICBMs in flight to further their research in high-level EMP destruction of the Great Satan:
"Within a year of that attack, nine out of 10 Americans would be dead, because we can't support a population of the present size in urban centers and the like without electricity," said Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy. "And that is exactly what I believe the Iranians are working towards."
1. Test missiles are routinely blown up in flight, to prevent damage downrange. The rocket geeks are testing the missile's ability to launch. They already know it has the ability to fall down - the science is settled on that.
2. Geez, that'd take one helluva bomb, to do everything we're supposed to be so afraid of. You sure a bunch of guys who can't get their society out of the twelfth century are up to something American nukie-poos are unable to do? Because I have doubts.
3. American missile sites are already hardened against EMP, or so I've always been told. So...why is a deterrent that worked for decades against the Soviet empire suddenly so toothless against...Iran?
H/T to IDIOTS4OBAMA
2 comments:
There is some level of EMP emitted from any nuclear warhead; probably not as much as something structured to maximize the EMP effect, though. I would think this is why US missile sites are hardened against EMP already.
Of course, they could go the Monty Python route and just fling sheep at us. How do sheep fare in low-earth orbit?
Nice takedown Joel. There is no threat here, just more drum beating against the Iranians.
-S
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