livefree_ordie, Ok. As long as you are able to marry your "It probably has become more of a threat as when an item such as this is researched by our Country or by others it becomes something our enemy becomes desirable for." with the fact, which you know now, that it's been researched by your country for some 60 years.
" It seems Obama did something just prior to his leaving office and some legislation started in 2016/2017 time frame end of article below. [...] 1962 Starfish Prime: [...] 1962 U.S.S. R. Test over Kazakhstan (Test 184)... : "
Only then will you have the context and the perspective of one who at least has a relatively informed and reasonable view of the situation.
Those bits are from your post. What i think should be of much more concern for you and the rest on your side of politics is the state of your Republican Party. See the exchange between one your prominent old-time politicians, Ted Cruz and a relative expert on EMP Ernest Moniz .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Moniz .. here
Not Fit to Lead The Iran hearings have shown how the Republican Party can no longer be trusted with the presidency. By William Saletan July 31, 2015 7:42 PM [...] 4. EMPs. In the July 23 Senate hearing, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin asked Moniz about a 2008 commission report on EMPs, electromagnetic pulses, which could be triggered by nuclear detonations and could knock out the U.S. power grid. Moniz, the former chairman of MIT’s physics department, has spent his career working in nuclear science. He told Johnson that he was unfamiliar with the report but that “if you look at our Quadrennial Energy Review published in April, we do identify EMP as a risk to transformers, and we are beginning to try to work up a response to that.”
In the hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas used this exchange to portray Moniz as an idiot:
Cruz: You told the United States Senate you hadn’t read the congressionally mandated commission on EMPs and that you didn’t know what an EMP was.
Moniz: That is incorrect. I said I did not know this 2008 report recommendations. I said I was quite familiar with the issue, and we all know about EMPs from airburst nuclear weapons.
Cruz: Secretary, let me read the testimony verbatim so that I don’t mischaracterize you. … “Senator Johnson: ‘Are you familiar with the EMPs commission 2008 report?’ ‘No, I am not, sir.’ ‘You’re not? Do you know—do you know what an EMP is?’ ‘You’ll have to explain it to me, please.’ ” I find that stunning. …
Moniz: That was about the report. If you read further in the testimony, you will see my explicit statement. Of course I know about the issue.
Cruz: Do you agree that an EMP detonated by Iran in the atmosphere could kill tens of millions of Americans? …
Moniz: It depends upon the specifics. These are highly variable—
Cruz: Does that mean, yes, it could?
Moniz: I said it is highly variable in its—
Cruz: OK. You’re refusing to answer the question.
The most disturbing thing about this exchange isn’t Cruz’s obnoxiousness. It’s his intellectual confidence in the face of his own ignorance. He doesn’t know the slightest fraction of what Moniz knows about EMPs. Either Cruz doesn’t understand this difference between himself and Moniz, or he doesn’t care. He hasn’t even taken the trouble to read the full transcript. And when he’s given a complex scientific answer to a simplistic, politically crafted question, he rejects it. Can any thinking person, after reading this exchange, feel comfortable with Cruz as president?