{"id":64400,"date":"2017-09-06T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64400"},"modified":"2017-09-04T23:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T04:03:49","slug":"the-real-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64400","title":{"rendered":"The Real Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Martin echoes my real concern about Kim’s new nuke arsenal – that they’re aiming to launch and electromagnetic pulse attack on the US.<\/p>\n

Or at least, planning on appearing to be able to. \u00a0In some ways, a big-enough EMP strike might cause more damage to the US than nuking one city, especially given the likely poor accuracy of Kim’s missiles.<\/p>\n

And it’s an imposing deterrent:<\/p>\n

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The possibilities of a NEMP attack have been talked about for a long time, as John Moore’s articles show. It’s possible that the real risk is finally becoming clear to our politicians and our legacy press. The Boston Herald\u00a0recently had an extended story on the danger of a North Korean NEMP attack<\/a>, and Tucker Carlson recently showed interest in the problem.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are others who don’t think it’s much of a risk, In that Boston Herald story, they quote Joshua Pollack, the editor of the\u00a0Nonproliferation Review<\/em>, as saying:<\/p>\n

[A]n EMP attack doesn\u2019t warrant more alarm than any other type of nuclear offensive because its efficacy is still uncertain \u2014 and it would have consequences for whichever nation launched it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just an untested approach to trying to use a weapon, and just invites retaliation without doing a lot of damage,\u201d Pollack said. \u201cI\u2019m much more concerned with blasting fire and radiation. Those will kill lots of people and destroy lots of stuff, and can do it very reliably.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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The problem here is that it’s based on a false assumption: that NEMP has not been tested. It’s never been applied as a weapon, but it has certainly been tested — and I don’t think my little fiction above is a worst-case scenario. So, how much damage from an inefficient NEMP attack should we plan on absorbing?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The mainstream media were wrong during the 70s and 80s, and they’re wrong today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie Martin echoes my real concern about Kim’s new nuke arsenal – that they’re aiming to launch and electromagnetic pulse attack on the US. Or at least, planning on appearing to be able to. \u00a0In some ways, a big-enough EMP strike might cause more damage to the US than nuking one city, especially given the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64401,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64400\/revisions\/64401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}