Electromagnetic Pulse Still a Risk
Three days ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it could take months for new UN sanctions against Iran. Today, The Wall Street Journal reports that, in addition to China, the Obama administration is increasingly worried about gaining the support of other members of the U.N. Security Council, including Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon. While Iran’s ballistic missile program continues to advance, a long-range nuclear missile might not be the biggest threat Iran presents to the United States.
Iran could place a short-range ballistic missile on one of the thousands of commercial freighters sailing in the Pacific and detonate a warhead high above U.S. territory that could take down 75 percent of our nation’s electrical grid. As Heritage fellow Baker Spring explains such a Electromagnetic Pulse EMP Attack would “cause a cascade of failures throughout the broader infrastructure, including banking systems, energy systems, transportation systems, food production and delivery systems, water systems, emergency services, and–perhaps most damaging–cyberspace.
Effectively, the U.S. would be thrown back to the pre-industrial age following a widespread EMP attack.”Congress has already begun to address this threat. They created the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse EMP Attack, who has since issued reports in 2004 and 2008. The Commission concluded: “EMP is one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences.”
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Re: Iran could put a short-range ballistic missile on a commercial freighter and detonate a warhead high above U.S. territory, shutting down 75 percent of our nation’s electrical grid: there was no mention whether Iran would do this covertly or take responsibility. The U.S. should tell Iran that should such an attack take place, the U.S. would hold Iran responsible in either case.
When it comes to the EMP Bomb , I commented on it over two years ago when North Korea was rumored to have it and testing it’s Missiles to eventually achieve an I.C.B.M. that could carry it. When you consider that the head of D.H.L.S. is trying to prosecute Sheriff Joe for arresting Illegal Aliens , and the rest of the Administration is dealing with Printing Money to give away in order to pass a ridiculous Health Care Bill , “NOT MUCH EFFORT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO INTELLIGENCE ON THIS SUBJECT”. All the latest efforts are now how to prosecute the Enemy Combatants and where. DA! “HOW ABOUT GITMO” , they are already there?