Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/02/2015
[EMP= manmade or natural electromagnetic
pulse]
INTRODUCCION
Por Hugo
Adan, June 3, 2015
Podemos
ganar la 3ra Guerra Mundial? ... Imaginar eso es una reverenda estupidez de guerreristas neocons como los que tenemos en el Pentagono,
en NATO y en el Senado Americano.
Este art
parece descabellado, pero hay aquí mucho de realidad:
Lo
cierto es que si existe la posibilidad de eliminar por completo el sistema
electro-magnético de un pais antes de un bombardeo nuclear.
Eso significa
que el “deterrence theory” conocida como
MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) si tiene hoy mas vigencia que ayer.
Pero
creo también en la urgente necesidad de evitar que guerreristas estúpidos tenga
acceso al control de dispositivos nucleares.
Si no evitamos
que estos errores sigan ocurriendo, habremos regresado a la barbarie, … al final
de la historia humana.
Y si
brain queda para explicar los que paso, tampoco podremos dar luces del por qué desaparecieron los
nuevos dinosaurios.
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HE AQUÍ algunos extractos del art del
zerohedge.com
Last year, Elliott
Management's Paul Singer highlighted "one risk that stands way
above the rest in terms of the scope of potential damage adjusted for the
likelihood of occurrence" - an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). As
Michael Snyder previously details, our entire way of life can be ended
in a single day. And it wouldn’t even take a nuclear war to do it.
All it would take for a rogue nation or terror organization to bring us to our
knees is the explosion of a couple well-placed nuclear devices high up in
our atmosphere. The resulting electromagnetic pulses would fry
electronics from coast to coast, and, as
PeakProsperity.com's Chris Martenson explains, the country is extremely
vulnerable to an EMP...
In the past here at Peak Prosperity, we’ve written
extensively on the threat posed by a sustained loss of electrical grid power.
More specifically, we've warned that the most damaging threat to our grid would
come from either a manmade or natural electromagnetic pulse (EMP).
A good friend of mine, Jen Bawden, is currently sitting on a
committee of notable political, security and defense experts -- which
includes past and present members of Congress, ambassadors, CIA directors, and
others -- who are equally concerned about this same threat and have recently
sent a letter to Obama pleading for action to protect the US grid.
We’re exploring this risk because there are a number of
developments that could knock out the power grid for a week or more. They
include a coronal mass ejection (CME), a nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
device, a cascading grid failure, and malicious hacking or electronic attacks.
Others Are Waking Up To The
Danger
Recently, we've been contacted by a well-connected group of
powerful people who have formed a commission to study the matter, and have
recently made a public and urgent appeal in an open letter to President Obama
to take this threat seriously.
This letter was sent to the President over the Memorial Day
weekend. It begins (emphasis mine):
Dear Mr. President,
We need your personal intervention to provide for
the protection of the American people against an existential threat posed by
natural and manmade electromagnetic pulse (EMP). The consequent failure of
critical infrastructure that sustain our lives is a major national security
threat and would be catastrophic to our people and our nation
The National Intelligence Council, which speaks for the
entire U.S. Intelligence Community, published in its 2012 unclassified Global
Trends 2030 report that an EMP is one of only eight Black Swan events that could change
the course of global civilization by or before 2030.
No official study denies the view that an EMP is a
potentially catastrophic societal threat that needs to be addressed urgently.
America is not prepared to be without water, electricity, telephones, computer
networks, heating, air conditioning, transportation (cars, subways, buses,
airplanes), and banking.
All the benefits of our just-in-time economy would come to a
deadly halt, including the production of petroleum products, clothing,
groceries and medicine. Think about cities without electricity to pump water to
their residents.
Nature Can Play This Game, Too
As a reminder, an EMP can also come from a natural
cause such as a coronal mass ejection from our sun -- something we’ve covered
in detail here in repeated interviews with NASA scientist Lika Guhathakurta (here
and here)
as well as in numerous reports centered on the electrical grid and/or warfare:
A coronal mass ejection from the Sun can generate a
natural EMP with catastrophic consequences
EMP As A Tool Of War
But the bigger risk, in my mind, is that a military
confrontation induces one (or several) players to use an EMP as a means of warfare.
With the US poking the Russian bear, and now considering military options to
confront China over the islands they are building in the South China Sea, it's
not out-of-the-question that one of these world powers could consider using an
EMP as a means of retaliation..
The letter to Obama
continues:
As we have known for over a
half-century from actual test data, even more damaging EMP effects would be
produced by any nuclear weapon exploded a hundred miles or so above the United
States, possibly disabling everything that depends on electronics for control
or operations within a line of sight from the explosion.
Electricity networks could be shut down indefinitely until
major repairs could be made, and this could take months, even years. .. Computers
would be incapacitated. Supply chains would shut down.
Russia and China have already developed nuclear EMP weapons
and many believe others possess EMP weapons including North Korea and soon Iran
Protecting Yourself
There are plenty of steps you can take to insulate yourself
from the worst effects of a loss of power. We’ve covered everything from building
your own Faraday cages, to installing solar and other electricity-generating
systems that might themselves withstand an EMP or other
acts of warfare and still function in providing essential power during
dark times.
In Part
2: Reducing Your Risk To A Grid-Down Event, we reveal the
vulnerabilities mostly likely to cause prolonged outages of the national power
grid: cyber attacks. The current system in the US has a disconcerting number of
failure points that can -- and are, the data shows -- being targeted by
malicious agents.
And more importantly, we lay out the specific steps
concerned individuals should take at the home level to have backup support and
protection should the grid go down. The cost of such preparation is very low
compared to the huge magnitude of this low-probability, but highly disruptive,
threat.
Click
here to read Part 2 of this report (free executive summary, enrollment
required for full access)
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