Turns out protection involves a layered missile defense system. Which means we can forget about it.
So long as a single child in the US is forced to watch standard DVDs or drink powdered fruit juice, the US military has no business gearing up for the unlikely event that sage, circumspect actors like North Korea or Iran, et al., might try something so silly as an EMP attack.
Besides. We’re just another country with a flag. How dare we presume to offer ourselves the kinds of military protections that would inherently disrupt the fairness and social justice of a level, world-wide military playing field.
For a preview of what life in America might look like after a successful EMP attack, read William Forstchen’s “One Second After”.
The fact that there’s really no way to prevent it is truly terrifying.
The only plus side one might take from the Obama presidency is that improving things as he has left them will be shockingly easy (or would be for a classical liberal). The improvements probably won’t save us in time, but they are so apparent that only a statist or isolationist can’t see them.
Well, a successful EMP attack would definitely release the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
If the lights suddenly go out east of the continental divide, I’ll be glad I’m hunkered down in the Sierra Nevadas…
the guy in the comments points to these guys
they have a bill they’re pushing here
“We learned long ago that those who do not possess swords may still die upon them.”
Can we have Star Wars back?
That worked well enough that Soviet Russia threw up its own economy and died.
No one who understands the physics of it can possibly believe that layered defense could work.
I almost got through that without smirking. Almost. If there’s any justice, something of that nature will be chiseled, rudely, onto Rachel Maddow’s headstone, so that people remember just what a colossal idiot she is.
Since this is a much bigger threat (still rather small) than the Germans or Ruskies trying to take over Europe or North Korea destroying South Korea, and if the one comment is to believed that this is relatively cheap technology, then let’s do it and bring our troops back home.
McKittrick at Closingvelocity seems to have fallen into the bitbucket. Google finds him, but his blog is empty.