BREAKING: North Korea has fired a long-range rocket critics see as cover for banned missile test.

a reply to: notmyrealname

I'm not sure you understand how EMP works.

Ask just about any senior military official, and you're likely to learn that EMP, dirty bombs, etc are the things that keep them up at night. EMP is very much a threat, and one that is largely ignored by budget writers.

a reply to: Shamrock6

I do understand all of the theory regarding EMP and potential interaction with solid state circuitry.

I also understand that the only way that that type of strike would be possible, is because someone in Langley 'allow' it to happen. The air force 'dot watchers' would pick it up in a heartbeat and make more space-junk. North Korea would be a dust bowl within the next few months. It is the general public that doesn't understand the state of information gathering within the US 'Intelligence' community. They are far beyond listening to phone conversations for information; they have top sheets on everyone (top-sheet is a basic summary of your personality type and tendencies etc...). That is usually gained from NLP based programs which run on social media sites (just like this one) and provided to another company for 'further processing'. The end result is much more advanced algorithms exist that are not NLP based and they can and do tell more about anyone than the person knows about themselves.

Bottom line, they will know.

a reply to: Shamrock6

James Clerk Maxwell cataloged most of the relevent physics back mid 1800's.
By the time Twain and Tesla were publishing Nuclear weapons research it was a well established science.
When we were playing around with TEMPEST and Faraday cages the Voyager flyby's were just confirming Maxwells predictions about the rings of Saturn.

I'm guessing that North Korea was chosen for EMP because it has a military based government with secure research facilities.

It takes a nuclear detonation at high altitude to create an effect on the scale being discussed...

NEMP weapons are designed to maximize such EMP effects as the primary damage mechanism, and some are capable of destroying susceptible electronic equipment over a wide area.

An NEMP warhead designed to be detonated far above the Earth's surface is known as a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) device.

The explosion releases a blast of gamma rays into the mid-stratosphere, which ionizes and the resultant energetic free electrons interact with the Earth's magnetic field to produce a much stronger EMP than is normally produced in the denser air at lower altitudes

Electromagnetic pulse

a reply to: Slichter

Just for the record, neither Samuel Clemens nor Nikola Tesla did any nuclear research, although Tesla did sleep with his head under an X-ray machine. Saturn's powerful magnetic field has nothing to do with its rings. No one "picked" North Korea to do any sort of research, much less the sort of nuclear research that would allow them to create an EMP weapon.

a reply to: DJW001

Just for the record

Just what can easily be found, cut and pasted.

a reply to: ExNihiloRed

Bomb the crap out of them.

COMEX MARS GRID DOWN test scheduled Friday February 12th for FEMA Region 3

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Always these coincidences

Article at SHTF claims satellite will be center US at 315 miles altitude on Kim Jung Ill (sp) birthday, February 16th.

Mmmmmm

a reply to: Phoenix

Can you post a working link? I am interested to read about what you are proposing here.