Showing posts with label EMP Threats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EMP Threats. Show all posts

Dr. Peter Vincent Pry | EMP - Could the lights go out in America? | Caravan to Midnight with John B Wells | Apr. 23, 2017

Source: caravantomidnight.com


Topic: EMP - America's Biggest Existential Threat

1. EMP THREAT Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
2. RUSSIAN MEGA NUKE
3. KOREA THREAT
4. WHAT IS: Task Force on National and Homeland Security, United States Nuclear Strategy Forum.
5. Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink, Nuclear Wars: Exchanges and Outcomes.
6. The Strategic Nuclear Balance: And Why It Matters, and Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal

BIO:
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, a congressional advisory board dedicated to achieving protection of the United States from electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and other threats on an accelerated basis. Dr. Pry also is Director of the United States Nuclear Strategy Forum, an advisory body to Congress on policies to counter Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Dr. Pry has served on the staffs of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States (2008-2009); ); the Commission on the New Strategic Posture of the United States (2006-2008); the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack (2001-2008); as Professional Staff on the House Armed Services Committee of the U.S. Congress, with portfolios in nuclear strategy, WMD, Russia, China, NATO, the Middle East, intelligence, and terrorism (1995-2001); as an Intelligence Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency responsible for analyzing Soviet and Russian nuclear strategy and operational plans, including EMP threats (1985-1995); and as a Verification Analyst at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency responsible for assessing Soviet compliance with nuclear and strategic forces arms control treaties (1984-1985).

Dr. Pry played a key role: running hearings in Congress that warned terrorists and rogue states could pose an EMP threat, establishing the Congressional EMP Commission, helping the Commission develop plans to protect the United States from EMP, and working closely with senior scientists who first discovered the nuclear EMP phenomenon. Dr. Pry has written numerous books on national security issues, including Civil-Military Preparedness For An Electromagnetic Pulse Catastrophe, War Scare: Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink, Nuclear Wars: Exchanges and Outcomes, The Strategic Nuclear Balance: And Why It Matters, and Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal. -caravantomidnight.com

Matthew Stein | What if a Solar Storm, EMP or Financial Collapse Happened Today? | Veritas Radio

Source: veritasradio.com, WhenTechFails.com, MatStein.com



This portion is being provided as a courtesy from Veritas Radio. To listen to more of this exclusive interview proceed to: veritasradio.com

Synopsis
Small solar storms strike our planet every year, that the most recent extreme solar storm hit the earth in 1921, and the one before that struck in 1859. Records indicate that even though most of the planet’s evening skies were lit up with incredible multicolored auroras during these two extreme geomagnetic disturbances (GMD), they apparently caused few major problems on the planet. This makes today’s situation very different from that of 90 and 150 years ago.

How could our country protect itself from the worst effects of an extreme solar storm or EMP attack, and why would this discourage such an attack?

For the price of a single B2 bomber ($2bn - worth more than its weight in gold) America could implement a program to avert the worst effects of an extreme solar storm or EMP attack, such as extended grid collapse and a nuclear Armageddon resulting from most of our country’s reactors melting down spontaneously.

Is the worst of the financial crisis is over, or is it yet to come?

What kinds of skills should I have that could help me survive a full-blown economic collapse?

What about trade and barter? Are there any specific types of items that would be particularly valuable in a barter system if the financial meltdown gets worse?

From looking at your list of natural and manmade disasters, it appears that pandemics and plagues have been the biggest killers of all time. How could the average person prepare in such event.
-veritasradio.com

Prof. William Forstchen | EMP Threats

Source: coasttocoastam.com


May 4, 2010
In the latter half of the program, Prof. William Forstchen talked about the dangers of EMP (electromagnetic pulse) effects that could arise from a bomb sent into the atmosphere, as well as from solar activity like an X-class flare. He warned that Iran is moving toward development of a space orbital launch capability that could possibly deliver an EMP first strike. Such an attack on America would knock out the electrical grid, and by some estimates as many as 90% of the population would die within a year, he reported.

The solar scenario could be even more dire, Forstchen declared, citing the Carrington Event of 1859 (chronicled in the book The Sun Kings by Stuart Clark) which knocked out the telegraphy grid of England and the Northeast U.S. One analysis stated that even four years after a solar EMP, some 80% of generating capacity would still be offline. While there could be anapproximately 24-hour warning before a serious solar flare hits Earth, no simulations have been done as to how to deal with it. Turning off the grid in advance of the flare might lessen its damage, he suggested. House Bill 2195 (PDF excerpt), advocated by Cong. Roscoe Bartlett, proposes investing funds to protect the grid from EMP threats, he added.
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