More To The Picture

Mulling over my previous post, "We're All Going To DIE!", I realized something not mentioned in the article or discussed in any manner whatever.

If a foreign power were to detonate a nuclear device 250 miles above the United States that created a credible EMP wave, there is no doubt whatever that nuclear devices would be detonating all over the United States and that foreign power at the same time, in what would be total nuclear war.

A nuclear-triggered EMP device detonated at 250 miles altitude would have to have been delivered by an incoming ICBM along with many other incoming ICBM's, tracked by our forces, reported as hostile to the president on the red phone, who would then use his nuclear football in response.

Nobody is going to launch just one ICBM with a nuclear warhead at us with the hope we will just sit here on our thumbs.

I know, I know, the theory is that this EMP weapon would knock out our ability to track more incoming ICBM's, make us blind and mute for the critical time period between detection of a massive wave of incoming ICBM's and the time it would take for them to destroy our ICBM force, our ability to respond. This line of thought overlooks all our spy satellites, our nuclear subs that patrol world-wide, our military bases in other nations, and the dismal fact that those forces are required to launch at their pre-assigned targets after a certain length of time in which they receive no communications from the White House or our military command centers. They will launch their missiles if communications fail. It's a fail-safe kind of thing, scary, but real.

Only an absolute lunatic would want to destroy our communications network. No doubt there are a few of them out there, but - so far - they do not have access to EMP devices and ICBM's.

A non-nuclear EMP device, perhaps available to a small country or a group of terrorists with lots of money, would have an effective radius of only yards, light-years away from the ability to destroy all our electronics nationwide.

In a real attack, millions of people worldwide would be dying, entire cites would be getting destroyed, both the attacking foreign power and the United States would be finished as viable nations in a matter of minutes, civilization as we know it would be ending, and nuclear winter would be on the way.

A non-working radio or TV - even if actually disabled by some remote "massive EMP wave" - would be the least of our worries.

Having an EMP attack against us is just a small part of the whole picture. It's that total nuclear exchange we need to be worried about.

Fretting over the effects a possible EMP wave in a nuclear world war is like fretting over your wet sneakers in the middle of a state-wide flood.

Priorities, priorities. Gotta worry abut the right things. Maybe that's why the Department of Homeland Defence has an EMP attack so far down on the the scale of worries.

Always keep in mind those nuclear submarines of ours. They have enough firepower to destroy entire nations all by themselves, and they can't be rendered ineffective by any kind of external EMP device, period. And they will launch after a short and critical period of silence.