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The EMP Threat: How It Works and What It Means for the Korean Crisis
February 26, 2018
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/emp-threat-works-means-korean-crisis/
The most routinely cited estimates come from a pair of assessments put together by the Congressional EMP Commission in 2004 and 2008. The commission had access to classified research and was allowed to conduct some testing of its own in a laboratory environment. Its findings weren’t optimistic.
According to the 2008 report on critical infrastructure: “The cascading effects from even one or two relatively small weapons exploded in optimum location in space at present would almost certainly shut down an entire interconnected electrical power system, perhaps affecting as much as 70 percent or possibly more of the United States, all in an instant.… Should significant parts of the electrical power infrastructure be lost for any substantial period of time, the Commission believes that the consequences are likely to be catastrophic, and many people may ultimately die for lack of the basic elements necessary to sustain life in dense urban and suburban communities.”
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Fears of an EMP attack are overblown. It’s what comes next that should worry you
It's not the EMP that's the biggest threat, it's what comes after.
Sep 28, 2022
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-electromagnetic-pulse-nuclear-attack/
If an adversary launched any sort of EMP attack on the United States, it would likely be a prelude to or part of a wider nuclear attack, said Alex Wellerstein, an expert on the history of nuclear weapons with Stevens Institute of Technology, a private research university in New Jersey.
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