Newt Gingrich: EMP From One Nuke Could Destroy America

North Korea has a missile on the launchpad that could reach far western parts of America, but no one here is too worried about Lil’ Kim lighting US up…especially with one nuke. (Here’s yesterday’s satellite imagery.) The conventional wisdom is that one nuke launched into America from anywhere wouldn’t be able to bring us to our knees. That a single launch of a missile poses no true threat to the United States because of our retaliatory power. Newt Gingrich says that those of us who believe this would be wrong.

Iran launched a “communications satellite” into orbit on February 3rd. North Korea says it’s doing the same thing…within days. But the ability to launch a communications satellite belies a far more frightening truth. A rocket that can carry a satellite into orbit can also drop a nuclear warhead over any location on the planet in less than forty-five minutes. Newt writes in Newsmax today:

One small nuclear weapon, delivered by an ICBM can, in fact, destroy the United States by maximizing the effect of the resultant electromagnetic pulse upon detonation.

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is a by-product of detonating an atomic bomb above the Earth’s atmosphere. When a nuclear weapon is detonated in space, the gamma rays emitted trigger a massive electrical disturbance in the upper atmosphere. Moving at the speed of light, this overload will short out all electrical equipment, power grids and delicate electronics on the earth’s surface. In fact, it would take only one to three weapons exploding above the continental United States to wipe out our entire grid and transportation network. It might take years to recover from, if ever.

Gingrich cites the Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack from April 2008 as sobering proof. This as the Obama administration has announced plans to reduce funding and downgrade efforts for missile defense. What good will bailouts be if there is no longer a nation to bail out?

The report says that one to three missiles tipped with nuclear weapons and armed to detonate at a high altitude, to achieve the strongest EMP over the greatest area of the United States, would create an EMP “overlay” that triggers a continental-wide collapse of our entire electrical, transportation and communications infrastructure.

Within weeks after such an attack, tens of millions of Americans would perish. The impact has been likened to a nationwide Hurricane Katrina. Some studies estimate that 90% of all Americans might very well die in the year after such an attack as our transportation, food distribution, communications, public safety, law enforcement and medical infrastructures collapse.

It is a blow we most likely would never recover from.

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