Nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) shock could be crippled Electric networkCommunications, transportation and other critical infrastructure for months, an expert warned.
Historian William Forstchen, author of the New York Times bestseller and EMPS expert, spoke with Fox News Digital that the US – and everyday Americans – can prepare for the “existential threat” that the attack sets.
“This is a very real threat,” he said. “EMP is created when there is a slight nuclear weapon, 40 to 60 kilotons or about three times larger than the Hiroshima boma, 200 miles in space above the United States are detonated. Electrostatic discharge that cascades on Earth on Earth enters the millions of kilometers of wires that become The antennas, it enters the power network, overloads the net and blows it. “
Forstchen, quoting the 2002 and 2008 Congress reports, said that 80% -90% of Americans would be dead a year later if the EMP strike happened.
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Electromagnetic impulse is a burst of electromagnetic energy produced by a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere, which is considered capable of broad damage to transmission lines, telecommunications and electronic equipment. (Homeland Security Department)
Although EMP seems to be a strike at first glance, more science fiction than a fact, Forstchen said that the potential for such an attack was recognized a decade ago.
“EMP thread was first realized during a 1962 high-height nuclear test.” They managed to return the system within a few days, but how it would be necessary for a month, six months, a year or five years repair? “
The late Peter PryThey agreed to a nuclear weapon expert and former director of the Congress Congress Commission. Prior to his death in 2022, Pry warned that the launch of Balistic missile Kim Jung Una was a test of the EMP North Korea’s EMP ability against the United States.
“Cars would be paralyzed,” Pry told Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs tonight In May 2017. “The aircraft could fall out of the sky. You would have a pipeline for natural gas pipelines, an overload of a nuclear reactor. And the worst of all, if you had a long darkening, it would be a serious threat to surviving American people.”
Geomagnetic disorder is a temporary disorder of the earth magnetosphere caused by a solar impact wave and/or a cloud of a magnetic field operating with a magnetic field of Earth. (Homeland Security Department)
The threat of EMP launched President Donald Trump during her first term in 2020, to publish a study with the Ministry of Defense (Dod) and the Ministry of Homeland Security (DHS).
“Just in the last few days, Trump’s administration again talks about the Israeli Iron Dome, but in the United States,” he said.
Forstchen shared three ways that could now be prepared for the potential attack by EMP.
Update an electric network
Calling the current electric network “Antiquity”, Forstchen claimed that it was necessary to update for the 21st century.
“It’s scary to understand that almost all our electricity is pumped on systems that are 30, even 40 years,” he said.
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Joseph J. Brettel, Communications Advisor and former Energy spokesman, UA wrote Fox News digital opinion piece that the electric network is a “desperate need for investment and modernization”.
“This is not just an infrastructure problem; it’s an economic opportunity,” he wrote. “With the liberation of huge resources and solving problems on the network, the President could solve a long challenge for decades, creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs.”
Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by the Iron Dome Air Defense System through the Galilee region in North Israel on August 2, 2024. (Alaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)
Create a US iron dome
Similar to Israel, now needs an iron dome, Forstchen said.
“Ronald Reagan He suggested him in the 80s, he was known as a star wars, “he said.” But that was impossible then, but with the technology we have today and guys like guys [Elon] Musk, it is very possible that we can make it for relatively less expenses compared to some other things. “
Trump has ordered the construction of an advanced shield of the new generation defense defense to protect the United States from an air attack. In January he signed an executive command of which task tasks Defense Minister Peta Hegsetth With the development of plans to build a “iron dome for America” that will protect Americans from the threat of rocket launched by a foreign enemy.
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Trump has kept the promise of the campaign that the priority of the projectile will be prioritized.
“With the next term we will build a large iron dome over our country,” Trump said during a West Palm Beach event June 14 “We deserved a dome … It’s a rocket defense shield, and everything will be done in America.”
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Emergency stock supply
Forstchen encouraged people to prepare for a potential threat by storage supplies.
“I urge every American citizen to take this seriously and prepare myself a little. I’m not talking about turning your home into a fort,” he said. “I say you have supplies for an emergency for a month or two at hand.”
As a resident of Asheville, North Carolina, Forstchen said that the destruction after the hurricane was “terrible”, leaving some of the still homeless after a natural disaster.
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“And this is a small regional event, imagine if it was the whole United States,” he said.
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