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2017-05-10 China-Japan-Koreas

A North Korean Nuclear EMP Attack? … Unlikely

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2017-05-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top
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#1 See Starfish Prime blast for EMP effects

Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-10 01:57|| 2017-05-10 01:57|| Front Page Top

#2 But Fake News sells!

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-05-10 08:57|| 2017-05-10 08:57|| Front Page Top

EMP ? Bring it. Perhaps they will finally resume the proper motoring speed and stay in their lane. I survived Y2k, Michael Jackson, Starbucks, and Barry Soetoro. I am determined to survive NORK EMP.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-10 09:06|| 2017-05-10 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 More likely an "unsourced"ground level bomb will destroy a city somewhere, maybe even Beijing.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-05-10 09:07|| 2017-05-10 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Miniaturization is the key. Our nuclear capable Samsung Galaxy S8+ app could take out an entire first floor Nordstrom's men's section and neighboring Starbucks.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-10 09:20|| 2017-05-10 09:20|| Front Page Top

#6 "Hacking" into our infrastructure with Chinese assistance is more of a real threat than this. Its easier, quiet, deniable, cheaper and gets the job done.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2017-05-10 10:12|| 2017-05-10 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 @#3: Nice pic. You are totally doable.

Posted by Spike Elmoth6259 2017-05-10 14:03|| 2017-05-10 14:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Detonation in a seaport, probably underwater to kick up the most radioactive crud, on the Pacific coast scares me a Lot more than the EMP-Godzilla that keeps returning from oblivion every few years.

Posted by magpie 2017-05-10 15:01|| 2017-05-10 15:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Absolutely right, Magpie.
Prepositioned atomics in the bay at Busan, home of the ROK navy and US Navy command
can compromise a US carrier group, the ROK Navy, poison South Korea's second largest city
and will severely impede deployment and resupply logistics for the US Forces SK.
Seoul is the imagined strategic first strike but it can be taken out with artillery.
The gateway to the world port of Busan feeds and defends the nation.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-10 15:44|| 2017-05-10 15:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Underwater nuke at the entrance to Puget Sound, and the tsunami would create one hell of a mess.

Posted by phil_b 2017-05-10 19:36|| 2017-05-10 19:36|| Front Page Top

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