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IRANIAN EMP NUCLEAR THREAT?

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

I don't think I've ever read an article in the last decade that frightened me more.  The tile of the post links to the article. A nuclear attack does not have to involve dozens or hundreds of MIRV'd warheads striking US cities. That was the Soviet threat in the Cold War.EMP- an electromagnetic pulse is achieved by detonating one warhead in the atmosphere. And as this article details, it would send us back to the horse and buggy age without the horse and buggys.  The result would quickly reduce the US population levels to those of the 1800's- about 30 million.   Apparently the Iranians are conducting tests designed to "put a scud in a bucket" and place one warhead on a ship that could fire the missile off the coast of the US. What do you think? As our late great friend Sy Gaer used to say, "and you wonder why I drink...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on August 02, 2008 (boomark / email).