DHS braces for 'potential EMP attack' as presidential election nears

[Billy_Kinetta]

All nations should be warned that such an attack will be considered as a nuclear equivalent, the response to which would be proportionally far greater than the attack.

DHS's warning published Thur. (Sept. 2), or about 60 days until the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3, indicates there are "evolving threats against the American homeland, most recently highlighting efforts to combat an Electromagnetic Pulse attack which could disrupt the electrical grid and potentially damage electronics."

DHS braces for 'potential EMP attack' as presidential election nears

 

[tyroneweaver]

Democratic wing of the DHS.

so they can contest the election if trump wins

 

[occupied]

An EMP is a nuclear attack. No one is going to shoot nukes at us. The idea is just stupid.

 

[Godboy]

An EMP is a nuclear attack. No one is going to shoot nukes at us. The idea is just stupid.

No its not. You can have an EMP without a nuclear detonation.

 

[occupied]

An EMP is a nuclear attack. No one is going to shoot nukes at us. The idea is just stupid.

No its not. You can have an EMP without a nuclear detonation.

Sure you can but it takes a huge bank of capacitors and the energy supply of small town to do it. Not sure how you would scale that up to WMD size.

 

[Augustine_]

All nations should be warned that such an attack will be considered as a nuclear equivalent, the response to which would be proportionally far greater than the attack.

DHS's warning published Thur. (Sept. 2), or about 60 days until the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3, indicates there are "evolving threats against the American homeland, most recently highlighting efforts to combat an Electromagnetic Pulse attack which could disrupt the electrical grid and potentially damage electronics."

DHS braces for 'potential EMP attack' as presidential election nears

As Trump continues maneuvering the U.S. towards being the enemy of the rest of the planet, attacks like that are likelier than ever before.

 

[theHawk]

All nations should be warned that such an attack will be considered as a nuclear equivalent, the response to which would be proportionally far greater than the attack.

DHS's warning published Thur. (Sept. 2), or about 60 days until the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3, indicates there are "evolving threats against the American homeland, most recently highlighting efforts to combat an Electromagnetic Pulse attack which could disrupt the electrical grid and potentially damage electronics."

DHS braces for 'potential EMP attack' as presidential election nears

As Trump continues maneuvering the U.S. towards being the enemy of the rest of the planet, attacks like that are likelier than ever before.

“Maneuvering the U.S. towards being the enemy” of everyone? How? By not starting new stupid wars like the Hussein did?
Unless of course you are referring to your masters, China.

 

[Godboy]

An EMP is a nuclear attack. No one is going to shoot nukes at us. The idea is just stupid.

No its not. You can have an EMP without a nuclear detonation.

Sure you can but it takes a huge bank of capacitors and the energy supply of small town to do it. Not sure how you would scale that up to WMD size.

I wouldnt know, since im not a weapons designer, but countries have been working on portable EMPs for a long time.

In the Navy, i remember reading an official "Pub" that claimed that if four EA6B's flew in a formation and used their super secret radar systems in a particular way, they could shut down the power to a city.

Im sure its doable in a number of ways.

 

[JimBowie1958]

An EMP is a nuclear attack. No one is going to shoot nukes at us. The idea is just stupid.

No its not. You can have an EMP without a nuclear detonation.

Sure you can but it takes a huge bank of capacitors and the energy supply of small town to do it. Not sure how you would scale that up to WMD size.

Electromagnetic pulse - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse (NNEMP) is a weapon-generated electromagnetic pulse without use of nuclear technology. Devices that can achieve this objective include a large low-inductance capacitor bank discharged into a single-loop antenna, a microwave generator, and an explosively pumped flux compression generator. To achieve the frequency characteristics of the pulse needed for optimal coupling into the target, wave-shaping circuits or microwave generators are added between the pulse source and the antenna. Vircators are vacuum tubes that are particularly suitable for microwave conversion of high-energy pulses.[7]​

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NNEMP generators can be carried as a payload of bombs, cruise missiles (such as the CHAMP missile) and drones, with diminished mechanical, thermal and ionizing radiation effects, but without the consequences of deploying nuclear weapons.​

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The range of NNEMP weapons is much less than nuclear EMP. Nearly all NNEMP devices used as weapons require chemical explosives as their initial energy source, producing only 10−6 (one millionth) the energy of nuclear explosives of similar weight.[8] The electromagnetic pulse from NNEMP weapons must come from within the weapon, while nuclear weapons generate EMP as a secondary effect.[9] These facts limit the range of NNEMP weapons, but allow finer target discrimination. The effect of small e-bombs has proven to be sufficient for certain terrorist or military operations.[citation needed] Examples of such operations include the destruction of electronic control systems critical to the operation of many ground vehicles and aircraft.[10][additional citation(s) needed]​

So, our enemies could load up 30 crusie missiles that go into high altitude bursts that maximize the blast radius of the EMP.

 

[occupied]

An EMP is a nuclear attack. No one is going to shoot nukes at us. The idea is just stupid.

No its not. You can have an EMP without a nuclear detonation.

Sure you can but it takes a huge bank of capacitors and the energy supply of small town to do it. Not sure how you would scale that up to WMD size.

I wouldnt know, since im not a weapons designer, but countries have been working on portable EMPs for a long time.

Perhaps that's true but to attack an area the size of a city requires an atomic detonation in the megaton range at the edge of space. Don't see how any physical device could emit terawatts of energy without turning into molten metal.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

All nations should be warned that such an attack will be considered as a nuclear equivalent, the response to which would be proportionally far greater than the attack.

DHS's warning published Thur. (Sept. 2), or about 60 days until the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3, indicates there are "evolving threats against the American homeland, most recently highlighting efforts to combat an Electromagnetic Pulse attack which could disrupt the electrical grid and potentially damage electronics."

DHS braces for 'potential EMP attack' as presidential election nears

World Nut Daily as a source Please!

 

[Care4all]

Girl Scout rule

BE PREPARED!!!

If it does happen on election day and voting machines go down,

voting places need to stock up on provisional ballots for citizens to be able to VOTE manually!

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

An EMP is a nuclear attack. No one is going to shoot nukes at us. The idea is just stupid.

No its not. You can have an EMP without a nuclear detonation.

Sure you can but it takes a huge bank of capacitors and the energy supply of small town to do it. Not sure how you would scale that up to WMD size.

How Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks Work

Learn how EMPs work and how these weapons could tear apart modern technology.

science.howstuffworks.com