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| reply to John Galt
Re: That's a lot of bombs....
I do not think Iran has the ability to produce a nuclear detonation 400 kilometers over the US that would be powerful enough to generate an EMP that would be able to disrupt to much.
The whole "document" is a little overblown.
Even if Iran was able to do so, they would get one off and the country would be completely destroyed in less than 12 minutes. Nuke by proxy really is not going to work either, just delay the amount of time it takes us to destroy Iran. We can certainly determine where the weapon came from simply by looking at its radioactive properties after a blast.
An EMP pulse will not take out as much as you may think. The whole idea of everything just stopping because of an EMP is a little too tin foil hat. Lightning hitting a transformer is a good example. The cars all on the street will still run, your watch will still work, but your PC may get damaged, maybe.
You would have to have a lot of detonations to knock out the entire country. Plus, the US military, I believe the first to actually ever use an EMP weapon, has long been prepared for this probably even before the development of nuclear weapons.
So, to end a long reply to a long unnecessary post (you could have just put a link to the article) no country in the world would use a nuclear weapon on the US unless they were ready for total destruction. Terrorist could but it would certainly be linked to a country and the US would wipe it out. You thought we were pissed by 9/11? Detonate a nuke and see what kind of wrath follows that. |
