China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are moving to build and deploy systems which can launch a nuclear weapon into the atmosphere to explode and disable electronics below, including flying aircraft.Ī report done while Dr. Pry is trying to raise awareness of the possible threat posed by an EMP attack, either from a military foe or from a solar event. Needless to say, we are not prepared for this.Ĭhina has the most active ballistic missile development program in the world. homeland a surprise ‘Pearl Harbor’ writ large - is replete with technical and operational planning consistent with a nuclear first-strike,” said Pry in his report. aircraft carriers, and achieve against the U.S. “China’s military doctrine - including numerous examples presented here of using HEMP attack to win on the battlefield, defeat U.S. Pry found that China is eager to shoot first with “high-altitude electromagnetic pulse,” or HEMP, weapons launched from satellites, ships, and land. Pry, a longtime expert on EMP warfare, China developed the weapons as part of its Total Information Warfare that includes hacking raids on computers, as is expected during the next presidential election.Įven more troubling, Dr. Solar events were considered the most likely EMP to occur. Such storms occur every 60 years or so, and in 1989, we weren't anywhere near as electrified and electronically interconnected as we are today, or as we will be in 30 years. The storm resulted from the Sun ejecting a trillion-cubic-mile plume of superheated plasma, or ionized gas. On the natural side, in 1989, an unexpected geomagnetic storm triggered an event on the Hydro-Québec power system that resulted in its complete collapse within 92 seconds, leaving six million customers without power. It knocked out about 300 streetlights, set off numerous burglar alarms, and damaged a telephone company microwave link that shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands. One hundred times bigger than what we dropped on Hiroshima, Starfish Prime resulted in an EMP which caused electrical damage nearly 900 miles away in Hawaii. The first human-caused EMP occurred in 1962 when the 1.4 megaton Starfish Prime thermonuclear weapon detonated 400 km above the Pacific Ocean.

The phenomenon of a large electromagnetic pulse is not new. electrons which are deflected sideways and southward by the Earth's magnetic field, maximally impacting a large area south of the detonation. The mechanism for a 400-kilometre-high (250 mi) burst EMP: gamma rays hit the atmosphere, ejecting.

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