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It was a big mistake to let this go on for so many years .
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Congress was warned Thursday that North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. today with a nuclear EMP bomb that could indefinitely shut down the electric power grid and kill 90 percent of "all Americans" within a year.
At a House hearing, experts said that North Korea could easily employ the "doomsday scenario" to turn parts of the U.S. to ashes.
In calling on the Pentagon and President Trump to move quickly to protect the grid, the experts testified that an explosion of a high-altitude nuclear bomb delivered by a missile or satellite "could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans."
yep, sorry but an EMP burst will not kill 90% of americans. in fact even if russian were to build another one of its 58 megaton bombs, and detonate it on american soil IT would not kill 90% of americans. it might wipe out a major city, and some of its outlying areas though.
What exactly would an EMP do in regards to killing us directly?
The EMP itself would not kill that many, not even close, but I think where they get the 90% figure is probably from the weeks and months AFTER the EMP is deployed, that is when most of the death would happen, and it would mainly be person on person, like your otherwise friendly neighbor who used to come over for backyard BBQs, they say it only takes about 5-7 days until a normal person would kill their neighbors entire family for the food in the fridge!
Thats where the real damage will be, not from the blast, but from the results of having no power, it wold turn the region into something like 'The Walking dead' (without the zombies), but you would still have roaming gangs of armed people out to take advantage of the situation.
And worse, once it degrades to this kind of thing, after a certain length of time, it would be almost impossible to recover from and restore order.
If it is found on internet and somehow can be used to criticize previous administration - it must surely be true.
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