As bad as the coronavirus and the COVID-19 sickness it causes are, warning cries are increasing over a much bigger threat with the potential to kill 90% of the U.S. population. And, unlike the virus, Washington has known of the threat for decades and done little to nothing.
“We have seen this movie before and are living through it now,” said Peter Pry, one of the nation’s leading experts on electromagnetic pulse, the electric grid killer that threatens naturally from the sun and from weapons held by China.
“If we are not even prepared for the coronavirus, imagine the consequences if we get hit with a real existential threat, like EMP,” he said.
Advocates for protecting the nation’s electric grid and other vital systems, including military bases, from an EMP attack are seizing on the virus crisis to inject urgency into budgeting to protect electric transformers, transfer stations, and wires from disruption or meltdown.
“For the $2 trillion that will be spent on the coronavirus, we could harden all critical infrastructures against EMP, deploy space-based missile defense Brilliant Pebbles before the end of a second Trump term, modernize the U.S. nuclear deterrent from top to bottom (delivery vehicles, weapons, scientific-industrial base), and have over $1 trillion to spare,” said Pry, a key member of congressional EMP commissions and author of the new book The Power and the Light: The Congressional EMP Commission’s War to Save America 2001 – 2020.
Brian Sullivan, a government and military security analyst, said, “Can you imagine if our grid went down and we lost electricity for an extended period of time? As bad as our current situation is, it could always be a lot worse. We relied on our government leaders to prepare our country for a pandemic, and we see what that got us. We rely on that same leadership now to protect our electric grid.”
While warnings of the current pandemic have been around for less than a year, reports have been written about EMP attacks for decades. The first congressional EMP panel, for example, warned of a yearlong blackout following an attack on the electric grid.
“The EMP Commission estimates a nationwide blackout of the United States lasting one year could kill 90% of Americans from starvation and societal collapse,” said Pry. That would be about 295 million people.
In the past, warnings have been met inside the government and energy industry with eye-rolling. But President Trump has taken the threat seriously, especially as China and other foes have developed EMP weapons, and signed an executive order to move toward protecting the grid. The military has also taken steps to protect its operations.
But Pry details in his new book the efforts inside the “deep state” federal bureaucracy and electric industry to “slow-roll and sabotage” Trump’s agenda while making it look like they’re making progress.
“The strategy of pretending to do something but really doing nothing and then throwing money at the threat when it happens will get millions of Americans killed when there is an EMP,” he told Secrets.
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TPTB have created a false apocalypse out of the Wuhan flu. An EMP is the real deal, if you haven’t, read One Second After by William Fortschen.
Operation Fishbowl 1962.
So I daresay the virus doom porn is winding down so now let us focus our attentions on something else to fear.
EMP is the legitimate threat I have been worried about for years. It is no shit. Kill zone doesn’t exactly cover the extent of it when you’re talking about a high altitude nuke over Chicago.
So, do we go first for Beijing or Wuhan?
I searched this site… EMP has been discussed multiple times long before you started the “virus doom porn” in the comments
Or what about an asteroid hit? Let’s use the $2 Trillion to prepare a defense for that!
Doom porn.
EMP is not doom porn. It is relatively cheap, effective, and plain genocidal. I’d fully expect nations with 1/10 our military budget to deploy such an attack.
And you believe our government is competent enough to prevent it? Based on what?
Asteroids, EMPs, Woo Flu….damn, I picked a shitty time to quit smoking.
Well ya, what’t the point? Everyone knows this shit. Wuhan manufactured, EMP, we are fucked. Got Faraday?
The whole US will be like Cuba, where the only operable vehicles will be 1950’s Chevrolets. The US will also be like Cuba since you’ll be able to rent a woman for a weekend for one hardboiled egg. My emergency powdered egg stash should prove handy after all.
If you need a fun diversion, go find some videos of guys who live stream side and put together a rube goldberg electrical system based on an old Chevy alternator and a couple of batteries. Oh yeah, the clever part is the water wheel design.
Beats the hell out of worrying over some damn bug.
We are in an economic collapse. Next, a food system collapse.
Its a little known fact that all we’ll need is several celebrity encouragement videos to counteract all negative impacts of an EMP. Of course you might need more of the “heavy hitters” like Meryl Streep and maybe Adam Sandler or someone like that. You just need an EMP hardened studio somewhere to shoot/broadcast the videos. Even if no one can see the videos because they are without power and their electronics are destroyed, just hearing ol’ Meryl screech how ” we’ll all make it through this together or alone or something” will make everything just fine. So we got that going for us. Which is nice.