Trump Moves to Protect Against EMP Attack

My long time readers know we have been blogging about EMP’s since we first started. Americans are totally reliant on electricity for everything. If the power were to get shut off right now and stay off for  4-6 months, FEMA tells us the US death toll could be 70% or greater.

Think about it. No freezers, no gasoline can be pumped, your electronic ignition car sits fried in the driveway, Walmart is looted, Cub Foods is pitch dark, the last milk in your refrigerator just spoiled, mobs of terrified people from the city are looking for food anywhere they can take it, credit cards don’t work, cell phones don’t work, no Netflix, no computers, no news on the TV.

An enemy of USA could do this OR Mother Nature could do it with a solar storm landing a direct hit on planet earth. Life as we know it would be totally over in a flash
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It’s not something many Americans think about: an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack on the nation’s electric grid. However, both peer competitors (Russia and China), and emerging threat countries, like North Korea and Iran, are perfecting this strategic weapon.

The White House is taking this potential threat seriously. On March 26, President Trump issued “Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses” in an effort to assess the risks of such an attack to critical U.S. infrastructure. Preliminary studies indicate that a catastrophic EMP event could cripple the U.S. economy and its military.

EMPs are pulses of energy that can be emitted from the blast of a nuclear weapon, portable devices like high power microwave weapons (HPMWs), or even certain natural phenomenon. These powerful pulses – when interacting with the Earth’s magnetic field – have the ability to damage electronic and electrical equipment such as computers, cell phones, transformers and transmission lines, as well as critical communications infrastructure. Even worse, the design of America’s electric grid means that damage to certain critical substations could cause cascading failures across the entire country.

While the threat of an electromagnetic pulse has been around since the first nuclear bomb (all nuclear denotations generate an EMP field), our heavy reliance on technology and the interconnectedness is unprecedented. The Commission to Assess the Threat from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack has warned since 2001 that essential U.S. infrastructure is at risk to an EMP event, stating that a high-altitude EMP (HEMP) attack would be “an existential threat to the survival of the United States and its allies.” An HEMP would likely involve the detonation of a nuclear weapon miles above the United States, where kinetic damage would be relatively harmless but the EMP effects would be at their most potent.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2019/04/05/whitehouse-prepares-to-face-emp-threat/#15a1511fe7e2