HEMP is produced when a nuclear weapon is detonated high above the Earth’s surface, creating gamma-radiation that interacts with the atmosphere to create an
intense electromagnetic energy field that is harmless to people as it radiates outward, but which can overload computer circuitry with effects similar to, but causing damage much more swiftly than a lightning strike. The effects of HEMP became fully known to the United States in 1962 during a high-altitude nuclear test (code named “Starfish Prime”) over the Pacific Ocean, when radio stations and electronic equipment were disrupted 800 miles away throughout Hawaii. The HEMP effect can span thousands of miles, depending on the altitude and the design and power of the nuclear burst (a single device detonated at an appropriate altitude over Kansas reportedly could affect all of the continental United States), and can be picked up by metallic conductors such as wires or power cables, acting as antennas to conduct the energy shockwave into the electronic systems of cars, airplanes, and communications equipment.
Yes, even New York City would be prone to this even from a HEMP explosion high above (hundred of miles) above Kansas. The break down of civility and control would be almost immediate when cars, trucks, planes and trains outfitted with computer chips will become fried and the ensuing chaos would reign when cell phones, police radios, security features, alarms, lights, etc will not work. In other words, large and mid-sized cities would become a morass of violent, heaving throbs of gangs and hoodlums taking over. Smaller sized towns would fare much better in controling the violence than large uncontrolled ones.
A HEMP attack directed against the Unites States continent might involve a one-megaton nuclear warhead, or a smaller one that is specially-designed, using a burst several hundred miles above the mid-western states to affect computers on both coasts. However, creating a HEMP effect over an area 250 miles in diameter, an example size for a battlefield, might only require a rocket with a modest altitude and payload capability that could loft a relatively small nuclear device. If a medium or higher range missile with a nuclear payload were launched from the deck of a freighter at sea, the resulting HEMP could reportedly disable computers over a wide area of the coastal United States.
Reportedly, several potential U.S. adversaries, such as Russia or China, are now capable of launching a crippling HEMP strike against the United States with a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile, and other nations, such as North Korea, could possibly have the capability by 2015. Other nations that could possibly develop a capability for HEMP operations over the next few years include United Kingdom, France, India, Israel, and Pakistan.
Read the rest of the disturbing HEMP report. United States and other allied countries are at serious risk for this sort of thing. See what the U.S. is doing to protect ourselves from a HEMP or HPM attack.
Better start buying antique cars that run without computer chips and buy a couple of Glocks and rifles once your city gets out of control with loonies. Well, it's kind of out of control with loonies anyway but you get the picture.
Read more how Al Qaeda and Iran are attempting to do this using an HEMP approach rather than destruction.
Hat tip: G. Gordon Liddy over the radio while I was driving to work.
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