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Military strategists have long predicted that the top attack in China’s assassin’s mace arsenal would be an Electromagnetic pulse bomb.
Life After An EMP Attack: No Power, No Food, No Transportation, No Banking And No Internet
Seeded on Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:01 PM EDT
Article Source: Alexander Higgins Blog
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Now declassified defense intelligence reports reveal China is already building nuclear EMP super bombs, according to a two page Washington Times report.
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#1 - Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:01 PM EDTIf this was to come to pass, I'd have to thank my parents. My brothers and I had the wonderful opportunity to grow up in a very rural area. My parents had instilled in all of us the basic trades that were taught to them by their parents. How to track, trap, hunt, shoot (bows & firearms) & cook. How to skin & tan animals. How to build a house from the ground up with nothing but hand tools. How to weave, knit, crochet & macrame. How to plant, fertilize, tend & can crops, as well as forage for wild fruits, vegetables, tubers & shrooms.
Still having the knowledge does not guarantee that I could survive after a devastating attack like an EMP. We would have to reevaluate what is most important in our lives and concentrate on what we need. Shelter, food, medicine, & security. And to do so we would have to forget some of our more socially acceptable thinking. Sorry Fido, you're the new white meat.
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#2 - Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:25 PM EDT
Instead of molesting old ladies at airports and chasing goat herders around the mountains of Afghanistan, perhaps we should be addressing our largest security vulnerabilities.
I agree with you Steve, I believe that I could keep MY family alive without the use of electronics too. Those of us that grew up without the toys and gadgets we all depend on today will probably survive more than a couple years. The younger people would be absolutely lost though!
First we need safe water, then food, then shelter, etc.
The worst part about it would be no newsvine! :-)
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#3 - Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:06 PM EDTI think we are safe .... China knows we have the same capability ....
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#4 - Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:05 PM EDTWhoever has the best defense and best deployment would win that war!
I'm getting a lead box to put my music HD in so it doesn't get wiped! I'll just bury it in the back yard and my grand kids will have a ton of tunes! :)
With the zero day exploits being released and a hackers claiming to have stuxnet the world better start paying attention to what the people are demanding.
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I'ts probably not the Chineses that we need to worry about when it comes to EMPs. They have too much invested in the West to cripple us in that manner. It is estimated that 200 million people would die within the 1st year after an EMP device was exploded in our atmosphere.
A series of only a few of them over central areas would fried every electronic and computer chip and everything from food developement and transportation, to electricity and other essentials. Refrigeration, water supply systems and all of our cars built after 1980 would be useless. Banking records, savings and deposits would be lost and civilization within our cities would cease to be civilized.
The real threat to EMP developement and usage resides in the desire to destroy Western Civilization by Islamist Fundamentalist who really have no vested interest in Western Civilization and have the religous zealotry it takes to want to destroy this part of the world.
The developement of this technology has already been exposed by defectors and deep plants within the Iranian Ahkmadinijad regime who have gone public with this information and is closer to a reality than most people think.
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The book "One Second After" is about this very subject. the consequences of this scenario are a real life "Mad Max" scene.
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#5 - Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:55 AM EDTSteve the Social Experiment
Well said, and congrats, that is the way to mitigate any foreseeable problem, nothing beats self-sufficiency, as for the rest get a Book on what is edible in your local area including parks and gardens, and have fun ;-)
As for Refrigeration the old " Bag and charcoal " will still work, do some reading how the Egyptians Made Ice cubes, nice reading.
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#6 - Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:21 PM EDTYou want a refrigerator without power? Take a large ceramic pot. Insert a metal cylinder inside the pot. Pour sand in the gap between the ceramic pot and metal cylinder. Place your food into the metal cylinder. Put a lid on the metal cylinder. Pour water into the sand. As the water evaporates it leaches heat from the surrounding area and keeps the food nice & cool. Just keep an eye on it throughout the day. You will have to replenish the water once or twice depending on the time of year.
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Nice one Steve, but one does not need the Metal Cylinder, just have the Bottom Third of the Container Not Glazed and Placed in the Soil, it does the same as you posted above as the Soil Draws the water from the Non Glazed Bottom of the Third berried container it draws heat, and the Water in the container is almost " Ice Cold " that has been used for thousands of years in a myriad places , Archeology is teaching those that hear a lot.
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I've long felt that there is nothing in a post apocalyptic world that would be worth living for. Sadly, it will be the ones with the guns and the resolve to use them that will survive.
Hopefully I will be at ground zero and have nothing to worry about.
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#7 - Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:03 PM EDTA quick trip to the 5th dimension would definitely be preferable ....
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