Monday, September 19, 2011

EMP Attack Could Wreck Havoc

'Most Americans do not know this, but a single EMP attack could potentially wipe out most of the electronics in the United States and instantly send this nation back to the 1800s. If a nuclear bomb was exploded high enough in the atmosphere over the middle part of the country, the electromagnetic pulse would fry electronic devices from coast to coast.

The damage would be millions of times worse than 9/11. Just imagine a world where nobody has power, most cars will not start, the Internet has been fried, the financial system is offline indefinitely, nobody can make any phone calls and virtually all commerce across the entire country is brought to a complete stop. A nation that does not know how to live without technology would be almost entirely stripped of it at that point.

Yes, this could really happen. An EMP attack is America's "Achilles heel", and everyone around the world knows it. It is only a matter of time before someone uses an EMP weapon against us, and at this point we are pretty much completely unprepared.'

NOTE: Life after an EMP attack would roll by time to that of our ancestors, without electronics, no transportation as we know it, food deliveries etc. For those living artificial lives in cities it will be devastating. For those of us living rural lives, things will continue as they have. Most people grow much of their own food and if you don't have it your neighbor does. Many of us already ride horses, and our ancestors rode horses or wagons into town less than 100 years ago.

In many ways it would be a smaller, simpler and perhaps healthier world. At any rate, we won't get to pick and choose, those decisions will be made by the dominant deciders.

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