Threat of EMP + nuclear attack

[quote name='Ruined']http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/congress/2004_r/04-07-22emp.pdf

Thoughts? It seems like a combined space-based (i.e. same rocket that could launch a satellite) EMP + nuke attack would leave the whole of the USA defenseless and obliterated. Fun stuff! :D[/quote]

with an EMP attack, all they have to do is let one off and just sit back and watch the country break down over night. Forget Nuclear attack...one high attitude EMP burst could cripple 90% of the country just like that.
 
If some fucker fries my electonics with an EMP attack, shit's going down. So help me if I have to fashion weapons from pointed sticks and rocks, shit's going down.
 
^lool, that's funny. While in other places they wish for "electronics". On the bright side for them though not having any they are "safe".
 
You know that there are people who would actually suggest destroying all electronics so we can be safe from an EMP attack.
 
[quote name='Mr Unoriginal']As long as our towers can detect their ghosts we should be safe...[/quote]

Casting magical sentry on the towers should do the trick.
 
Don't worry, the government has a few thousand warehouses and hangers that are most likely shielded and has enough spare parts, supplies and weapons ready to go for a counter attack. There is more of a threat from a massive solar flare hitting the planet then there is for an EMP attack.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']Don't worry, the government has a few thousand warehouses and hangers that are most likely shielded and has enough spare parts, supplies and weapons ready to go for a counter attack. There is more of a threat from a massive solar flare hitting the planet then there is for an EMP attack.[/quote]

Seconded.

An EMP attack won't do too much to weaken the US military.

We have hundreds of thousands of troops and their equipment spread across the world. That's the cost of spreading freedom. :lol:

Now, the civilian population ... Hmm. We had an ice storm here in Louisville last January. Daily high in the 20s and no power for 500,000 people for at least a week. Even worse, places like Elizabethtown had boil water orders for a week, too. Being more paranoid than the average bear, I figured people would go feral in a few days, but there was nothing other than a few random acts of violence.

An EMP attack would give people the opportunity to prioritize. No TV for a week? Maybe there is no need for a 50" plasma screen TV and a cable subscription. No TV for a month? TVs would have to be given away to get subscribers back. No car for a week? Maybe bus passes would come into vogue. No car for a month? People would find jobs within walking and biking distance.
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']Seconded.

An EMP attack won't do too much to weaken the US military.

We have hundreds of thousands of troops and their equipment spread across the world. That's the cost of spreading freedom. :lol:

Now, the civilian population ... Hmm. We had an ice storm here in Louisville last January. Daily high in the 20s and no power for 500,000 people for at least a week. Even worse, places like Elizabethtown had boil water orders for a week, too. Being more paranoid than the average bear, I figured people would go feral in a few days, but there was nothing other than a few random acts of violence.

An EMP attack would give people the opportunity to prioritize. No TV for a week? Maybe there is no need for a 50" plasma screen TV and a cable subscription. No TV for a month? TVs would have to be given away to get subscribers back. No car for a week? Maybe bus passes would come into vogue. No car for a month? People would find jobs within walking and biking distance.[/quote]

If anything, the EMP attack would completely destroy the economy in a week. No one is going to go to work because everyone is afraid to leave their homes. Police forces and NG would be overwelmed by the massive breakdown in law (rioting, looting, murder, rape, etc). I dunno, it's like when the lights don't want to come back on, everyone goes NUTS.

Just imagine being in surgery when that happens...you are definatly fucked on the table.
 
If you want to see what could happen from an EMP/Nuclear Attack, I would suggest watching the TV show Jericho, or reading the book Warday. Both are great food for thought.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']Don't worry, the government has a few thousand warehouses and hangers that are most likely shielded and has enough spare parts, supplies and weapons ready to go for a counter attack. There is more of a threat from a massive solar flare hitting the planet then there is for an EMP attack.[/QUOTE]

Thirded. We have a shit load of weapons protected from such possible attacks all over the country and in other countries.

And as said in the other posts, and EMP attack would fuck up the economy across the world.
 
[quote name='fullmetalfan720']If you want to see what could happen from an EMP/Nuclear Attack, I would suggest watching the TV show Jericho, or reading the book Warday. Both are great food for thought.[/quote]


Although I loved Jericho...it did have its share of problems. We were spared the horrors of the seeing thousands of radiation burn victims from the targeted cities. It might have been too much for network tv.
The EMP in that one episode was not portrayed correctly. Yea it knocked out power, but everything should have been fried big time. Oh well it was just a show.

You want the effects of EMP and nuclear attack, I suggest renting or buying a movie called "The Day After". It's an 80's movie that really shows what this country could have faced if we were hit with an EMP and nuclear exchange with the russians.
 
It all seems so familiar.

On June 1, 2009, months after Max's escape, terrorists detonate an electromagnetic pulse weapon in the atmosphere over the U.S., which destroys the vast majority of computer and communication systems, throwing the country into utter chaos.
Click to expand...

Guess I should cancel my summer plans.
 
Really? We're framing debating our future policy off of the plots of action dramas?

I fuckin' give up. I'm going to give up my work in favor of being a dishwasher at McDonald's and developing a crippling heroin addiction that will take my life over time.

At least then I'll have more self-respect and dignity than if I engaged in policy debate with someone who asks me how we might stop the attacks of the Delaks, or whatever the fuck they're called.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']
I fuckin' give up. I'm going to give up my work in favor of being a dishwasher at McDonald's and developing a crippling heroin addiction that will take my life over time.
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Not after I burn it down when you put fucking pickles on my burger, bitch.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Really? We're framing debating our future policy off of the plots of action dramas?

I fuckin' give up. I'm going to give up my work in favor of being a dishwasher at McDonald's and developing a crippling heroin addiction that will take my life over time.

At least then I'll have more self-respect and dignity than if I engaged in policy debate with someone who asks me how we might stop the attacks of the Delaks, or whatever the fuck they're called.[/quote]
Look, all's we're saying is that you can never have too many Corsairs and Scouts on patrol. And would it kill you to get some photon cannons over your mineral line?
 
[quote name='The Crotch']Look, all's we're saying is that you can never have too many Corsairs and Scouts on patrol. And would it kill you to get some photon cannons over your mineral line?[/QUOTE]

Sure, advocate more defense spending in the face of our crippling overdependence on foreign vespene.
 
I'd vote for someone if their party tagline was WE REQUIRE MORE MINERALS.

If I ever am forced to join a PTA, that'll be my platform.
 
But that's just a band-aid that will tide us over in the intervening years. What we really need now is real investment in a nexus of cleaner energy sources. Put simply, we require additional pylons.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Really? We're framing debating our future policy off of the plots of action dramas?[/quote]

I'm basing my thoughts on events in my life. I know they're only marginally realistic.

EMP would transform the economy more than destroy it.

As long as a person has clean water, clean food and a comfortable place to sleep, everything else is icing on the cake (electricity, trash pickup, etc).

If everybody's electronics are disabled, there would be demand for shielded electronics the next day.

If there was a foreseeable shortage of food, there would be demand for manual farm implements, seeds, greenhouse equipment and fences.
 
What did one zergling calculus teacher say to the other?

WE REQUIRE MORE INTEGRALS!

Oh yeah. It hurt when I thought it up, too.
 
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