EMP...Ugh

[YankeY]

Everyone onsite today got to talking about survival, and just how vulnerable the US is. This stuff is scary. Read this article...
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/grigrich_emp_weapon/2009/03/29/197257.html?s=al&promo_code=7D18-1

[Perlmudder]

makes you think... that's for sure.

[Chris]

The scary part is that virtually everyone out there is either oblivious or ambivalent about this sort of thing.

In relative terms, the attacks on New York in '01 were relatively small- at least when compared to a nuclear attack. Yet they had deeply reverberating social and economic impacts that took years to get past. You would think people would have caught a clue after 9/11.

[YankeY]

The scary part is that virtually everyone out there is either oblivious or ambivalent about this sort of thing.

In relative terms, the attacks on New York in '01 were relatively small- at least when compared to a nuclear attack. Yet they had deeply reverberating social and economic impacts that took years to get past. You would think people would have caught a clue after 9/11.

Exactly, but realizing with this sort of a nuclear attack it is not radiation to be worried about, but much worse. It would mean all electornics are disabled (planes falling from the skies, no power, no communication or any transportation). This sort of an attack could be as few as 1-2 rockets lauched from 10 min off the US coast from a ship (completely undefendable). How long do you think our civilization and life as we know it would last?

[Buoy]

Exactly, but realizing with this sort of a nuclear attack it is not radiation to be worried about, but much worse. It would mean all electornics are disabled (planes falling from the skies, no power, no communication or any transportation). This sort of an attack could be as few as 1-2 rockets lauched from 10 min off the US coast from a ship (completely undefendable). How long do you think our civilization and life as we know it would last?

Great.
And I'm moving to the phuckin desert next weekend that was uninhabitable until the 60's when some of the electronics and such made it a place that could actually be habitable.

[Sydwayz]

I have worked in many government facilities that are designed and protected against such attacks. We would not be totally wiped out, but it would be ugly nonetheless.

[insanity]

Ignorance is bliss, people are much happier with their head in the sand, thinking everything is peachy-keen.

That being said, picked up another couple hundred dollars in ammo this morning :D

[Bobcat]

back in the seventies we (the U.S. ) took apart a mig 25 and laughed because it still had vacuum tubes instead of solid state electronics, turns out that was preparation for emp, oh ,and we have planned this also;)

[Chris]

It's hard to believe how much steel is in those old MiG's.

[Ted]

I just have to mosey over to Craig's bomb shelter, we are good for weeks! :D

[Sea-Dated]

Ignorance is bliss, people are much happier with their head in the sand, thinking everything is peachy-keen.

That being said, picked up another couple hundred dollars in ammo this morning :D

You are right, I have friends and family in Homeland Security and if people had any idea what goes on everyday, they would never sleep......


Good idea on the ammo.....