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Ombow, >> Wouldn't it take multiple nuclear warheads, like hundreds or so, to fry our entire electrical grid <<


No, it takes a single device detonated in low orbit over the target country. Positioned over the center of the US, a single device can fry the entire US power grid.

Most people have no idea. All you have to do is put a single device up into low orbit. From a technical perspective it's relatively easy, you can use a decades old Scud missile. The hardest part is the miniaturization of the device to make it small and light enough to fit on a the booster. You could also put the device in a high altitude weather balloon.

N. Korea has already put 2 satellites into orbit, the last in 2016. They are in polar orbit and pass over the US daily.

Last year, former CIA Director James Woolsey said in televised interviews that he believes N. Korea has already had the ability to take out our power grid with an EMP device for at least 2 years.

Woolsey explains that unlike a nuke-tipped ICBM, with an EMP weapon there is no need for an accurate guidance system, thermoprotection/heat shields, or warhead ruggedization. Those are the difficult technological hurdles, but are not needed for an EMP weapon, you only need miniaturization because the device doesn't have to re-enter the atmosphere, it is detonated while in orbit.

We're in a heap of trouble. A single EMP device can send the US back to the stone age permanently because in addition to frying the power grid and all electronics, within 1-4 weeks the 99 US nuclear power plants will start melting down Fukashima style, rendering the country uninhabitable (the backup pumps to cool the reactors will run out of diesel fuel, and the trucks needed to resupply the fuel will be inoperable due to fried electrical systems).

Another comforting thought is that dozens of nuclear warheads went missing after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Also, a large EMP from a solar storm (Carrington Event) will fry all unhardened electronics on the planet. We have the technology to EMP-proof our power grid and electronics, but the US has done nothing other than for a few continuity of government and military areas. Russia and China have reportedly been hardening their civilian power grids to some extent.


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