{"id":30186,"date":"2012-10-14T17:11:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T00:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=30186"},"modified":"2012-10-14T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T00:11:30","slug":"an-electromagnetic-pulse-attack-the-other-iranian-nuclear-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/an-electromagnetic-pulse-attack-the-other-iranian-nuclear-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"An electromagnetic pulse attack &#8212; the &#8216;other&#8217; Iranian nuclear threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just what might happen if the Iranians got their hands on a nuclear weapon? Would they fire it at an Israeli city, causing tens or hundreds of thousands of casualties? Or would they use it as a geopolitical weapon, seeking to dominate the Middle East and forcing the hand of Western powers, either subtly or by overtly threatening death and destruction to those who fail to heed their dictates?<\/p>\n<p>While political scientists and world leaders have debated the likelihood of those two possibilities, there is a third plausible scenario: The use of a nuclear weapon by Iran to carry out an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack against Israel, the US, or Europe. Such an attack could cause severe damage to the electrical grid in the targeted nations, to the extent that the routines of daily life \u2014 centered around the use of electrical power \u2014 could be halted, for a short or even long period of time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/an-electro-magnetic-pulse-attack-the-other-iranian-nuclear-threat\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=15321673-4b02-409f-b862-96c8f7c74318\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just what might happen if the Iranians got their hands on a nuclear weapon? Would they fire it at an Israeli city, causing tens or hundreds of thousands of casualties? Or would they use it as a geopolitical weapon, seeking to dominate the Middle East and forcing the hand of Western powers, either subtly or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[700],"tags":[2129,259,1185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30188,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186\/revisions\/30188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}