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Get a load of this crapola… Israel could send Iran ‘back to the stone age’ with electromagnetic bomb…
Detonation would disrupt all the enemy’s technological devices, Sunday Times reports…
Israel could destroy Iran’s electric network with a specially designed electromagnetic bomb in the event of a military conflict between the countries, The Sunday Times reported on Sunday.
An electromagnetic bomb of this sort would be detonated above the ground, creating an electromagnetic pulse that would “disrupt all the technological devices working on the ground,” an American expert was quoted as saying to the London paper.
The use of the new technology by Israel was brought up in discussions regarding a possible attack on Tehran’s nuclear facilities, the report claimed. Such a move would send Iran “back to the stone age,” the British paper said.
This kind of bomb would operate based on the nonlethal technology of gamma rays, the report explained. The outburst of energy would “fry” electric devices and currents around the source of the explosion.
First of all, the Electromagnetic Pulse necessary to ‘knock Iran into the stone age’ would require a nuclear device detonated hundreds of kilometers above Iran, considering that there are no other means of delivering such a blow…! So, in essence, Bibi will preemptively Nuke Iran, so Israel won’t be Nuked some time down the line…?
Now, I do like the fact that there is indeed some Western pushback surfacing…
In secret visit to Israel, U.K. officials warn Netanyahu against unilateral attack on Iran
A high-ranking visitor delivered a stern message from British PM David Cameron against an uncoordinated Israeli strike on Iran at this time.
Even Shrillary and her spokespuppet, Victoria Nuland, had rebuffed Bibi’s latest buffoonery…
Israel Presses U.S. Over Setting ‘Red Lines’ for Iran
The U.S. and Israel are disagreeing publicly over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s push to set “red lines” and deadlines for dealing with Iran’s nuclear activities.
An Israeli government official said yesterday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comment in an interview Sept. 9 with Bloomberg Radio that the U.S. is “not setting deadlines” for Iran won’t help deter its nuclear program, and may even put the Iranians at ease. {…}
…In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said yesterday that it’s “not useful” to be setting deadlines for negotiations or red lines. President Barack Obama previously has said that Iran won’t be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, she said, declining to elaborate.
Clinton said in the interview that economic sanctions are building pressure on Iran, and the U.S. still considers negotiations as “by far the best approach” to prevent the Islamic Republic from developing nuclear weapons.
Asked if the Obama administration will lay out sharper “red lines” for Iran or state explicitly the consequences of failing to negotiate a deal with world powers by a certain date, Clinton said, “We’re not setting deadlines.” {…}
…Clinton has said that Iran, which depends on oil for more than half of its government revenue, is losing billions of dollars from lost oil sales due to sanctions. {…}
The U.S., European allies and Israel accuse Iran of seeking an atomic bomb capability. In its report last month, the IAEA said it “is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.” The IAEA said it hadn’t detected any material being diverted from Iran’s 16 declared nuclear facilities.
Interestingly, despite the fact that the IAEA can’t verify the diversion of nuclear material, the Neo/Ziocons must press on…
Analysts press IAEA after nuke talks stall with Iran
The United Nations nuclear watchdog needs to admit that it cannot determine whether Iran is building an atomic weapon and that the U.N. Security Council must take stronger action, analysts say. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) board of governors’ meeting could result in escalating the conflict with Iran, said David Albright, an arms-control expert at the Institute for Science and International Security.
“The IAEA has a job to do, and they need to worry about their credibility as an institution,” Albright said. “So they have to move this forward and that means escalate it. And unfortunately that increases the risk of military action.”
Yukiya Amano, director general of the IAEA, expressed frustration with Iran on Monday, saying that months of delays have stymied inspectors’ efforts to visit the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran.
The IAEA believes Iran may have experimented there with blast tests used to trigger a nuclear charge. Meanwhile, Israel has said time is running out for diplomatic efforts to verify Iran’s nuclear intentions.
Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, such as energy production.
“We need to stop going around in circles,” Amano said of months-long fruitless talk between the IAEA and Iran. “This is frustrating.” {…}
…”The IAEA’s job is to warn the Security Council of threats to peace,” Jeffrey said. If the IAEA’s report “is strong and damning, the Security Council will be under pressure to implement actions or sanctions against Iran.”
“This is headed for another serious debate and another serious and agonizing negotiation in the Security Council about what further serious steps and sanctions to impose on Iran,” Jeffrey said.
Albright said there is little choice now but to move the matter to a higher level.
“The IAEA has done everything it can, and it should wash its hands of the whole thing,” Albright said.
Now, to say that Yukiya Amano and David Albright are acting in everybody’s best interests would be a stretch…!
All this bluster by Bibi is designed to distract from what’s really happening in the West Bank…
Palestinians Borrow Chant From Syria to Vent Rage at Their Leaders
During protests in the West Bank on Monday, Palestinians adapted a protest anthem made popular by their neighbors in Syria last year to call for their president and prime minister to step down.
The original song, “Yalla Erhal Ya Bashar,” or “Come on Bashar, Leave,” calling for the departure of President Bashar al-Assad, was written last year in Syria. At a protest in the West Bank on Monday, protesters changed the words of the tune, to focus on President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
As Yousef Munayyer, the director of The Palestine Center in Washington, observed on Twitter, the borrowing completed a circle in a way.
Palestinians have long taught other Arabs art of protest. W/ adaptation of #Syria protest chant, we’ve come full circle…
What’s funny is that Abu Mazen, who has long since been exposed as a corrupt Israeli tool, and most of Fatah for that matter, whom all are living on borrowed time, is starting to feel the sting…
Fatah officials angry at PA’s delay of statehood bid
Senior Fatah official says Abbas decision not to present UN membership request during GA “harmful” to PA credibility.
Why can’t Palestine be admitted as a ‘Nation-State’ at the UN…?
One final note on Iran, Flynt Leverett lays it out…
…If the United States insists on micromanaging Iran’s domestic politics to produce exactly the kind of interlocutor it wants to deal with, it will fail. In the process, Washington will continue to miss opportunities to do what it so manifestly needs to do, for America’s own interests—to come to terms with the Islamic Republic as it is, not as those radically disconnected from Iranian reality might wish it to be.
Amen, Flynt, Amen…!
Will Sanity ever prevail…?
*gah*
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That’s not a claim that Israel made, it’s a Sunday Times statement. Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons, or e-bombs, can be non-nuclear, and delivered by a missile warhead to knock out electronics in a limited area. Reportedly China used one to incapacitate the cruise ship Carnival Splendor on Nov 8, 2010, in the eastern Pacific. I assume Israel and Iran both have them.
The IAEA is not a “nuclear watchdog.” The IAEA is not a super-snooper nuclear spy agency. This agency has one purpose and only one purpose according to the NPT, and that is to ensure the non-diversion of nuclear fuel to a weapons program. That’s it. No more.
Finally,
No, he’s not an arms-control expert. Albright is primarily an Israeli propagandist.
That’s not a claim that Israel made, it’s a Sunday Times statement. Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons, or e-bombs, can be non-nuclear, and delivered by a missile warhead to knock out electronics in a limited area.
db, read what I wrote…! If it is a ‘Nation-Wide’ EMP wipe-out, it will most assuredly necessitate a Nuke detonation…! 8-(
ct, read what I wrote. According to the article (I don’t do video) the Times concocted the story. 8-)
The EMP of a nuclear device.
or non-nuclear Explosively pumped flux compression generator.
…exceeding the power of a lightning strike by orders of magnitude…
Exactly…! Power in, power out…! It does in fact require inordinate amounts of energy to trigger it…! 8-(
And it would not work. Everything important is protected by a Faraday Cage.
It has never been tested on this scale. Things not tested do not work. Ask Murphy why.
http://www.active-duty.com/MI_FCG_FluxCompressionGenerator.htm
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/apjemp.html
cmk, look at what you’re reporting…
The Lethality of Electromagnetic Warheads
The issue of electromagnetic weapon lethality is complex. Unlike the technology base for weapon construction, which has been widely published in the open literature, lethality related issues have been published much less frequently.
While the calculation of electromagnetic field strengths achievable at a given radius for a given device design is a straightforward task, determining a kill probability for a given class of target under such conditions is not.
This is for good reasons. The first is that target types are very diverse in their electromagnetic hardness, or ability to resist damage. Equipment which has been intentionally shielded and hardened against electromagnetic attack will withstand orders of magnitude greater field strengths than standard commercially rated equipment. Moreover, various manufacturer’s implementations of like types of equipment may vary significantly in hardness due the idiosyncrasies of specific electrical designs, cabling schemes and chassis/shielding designs used.
The second major problem area in determining lethality is that of coupling efficiency, which is a measure of how much power is transferred from the field produced by the weapon into the target. Only power coupled into the target can cause useful damage.
So, once again, I ask how large an explosion(s) will it take…? 8-(
Wow! I’d never heard of the explosive but non-nuclear devices. Thanks for informing me.
Let’s consider the source… Arutz Sheva Op-Ed Triggered U.S. Worries on Iran EMP Strike
London Times notes spy agencies’ ‘growing concerns’ were set off by article on this page they think was written by Israeli officials…
There is a related, and quite terrible problem with this weapon, and to any foolish assertions it doesn’t work.
It does work, but;
Use of this weapon would lead very quickly to nuclear war as retaliatory strikes escalate.
Remember the old sayings concerning a cornered rat or a wounded lion?
Imagine a nuclear power attacked with a limited/local EMP device, the retaliatory response by the victims remaining capacity, if there is any, is more likely all-out annihilation of the attacker with nuclear weapons.
These weapons are de-stabilizing for this very reason, and all the related problems have been part and parcel with efforts to get around the central ‘problem’ with nuclear weapons, that being they are only useful as deterrents, they cannot be used to ‘win’ wars, they can only be used to deter aggression.
The MOTU want something they can use to ‘win’, and so far nuclear weapons are too dangerous because all rational analysis points to the impossibility of ‘limited’ nuclear war.
The history so far, has been that those with nuclear weapons fear/realize that use of the bomb is impossible because it quickly leads to total nuclear war and a virtual end of the world as we know it.
The MOTU don’t want to end the world, they want rule the world.
They see the EMP as a possible solution to this problem, but the panic that is promulgated in the enemy camp after the first EMP attack is on the same order as nuclear attack because it leaves them feeling virtually defenseless, and with no option left but nuclear retaliation if they still have functional weapons.
There’s always someone thinking they’ve found a way around the MAD (mutually assured destruction) conundrum, remember Dr. Strangelove?
I don’t rule out the possibility that the MOTU will just keep firing military brass until they find some who will go along with some foolish plan.
Remember General Shinseki?
You don’t need an explosion at all. Using the FCG described above as an example, the initial magnetic pulse can be used to collapse the tube in a linear manner. All you’d need is a coil and a sufficiently large pules of electricity. Like the capactior bank already being used to power the AF’s laser weapon.
I know the EMP design to take out the entire US net assumes a 1 megaton blast in the stratisphere located over Kan. But that’s not the only way or even the best one.
Example: The Zimmer power station powers a large chunk of Oh, Ky, Ind. To generate an EMP that takes it out and travels down it’s lines to take out the superstations could be done with a small device, it would only have to cover an acre or so. And for all i know, it could get through the superstations and take out substations as well.
Boxturtle (Now DHS is going to be watching me. Assuming they aren’t already)
They (the defense dept.) have been working on designs that use permanent magnets instead of the capacitor bank.
If the frequency of the pulse (duration) is the same as the resonant frequency for the conductor(s), the voltage induced in those conductors will be much greater since at resonance their impedance approaches infinity. +- DC resistance.
In other words….
IT
COULD
WORK !!
Read this link to a description of the device you are talking about.
The Explosively Pumped Flux compression Generator. (Wiki)
The particular device is toward the bottom of the page, it’s called a Disk Generator, the most powerful of the FCGs and it does include exploves, and in fact the powerful electric pulse you describe as necessary is actually provided by coupling the Disk Generator to another type of FCG, a MK-2 Helical Generator which is also powered by high explosives.
What is described is two FCGs powered by explosives, going off in rapid succession, each creating an EMP, and the first one also providing the electric pulse to power the second.
The details on both FCG devices is presented on the linked page.
All this money spent on a Star War umbrella protection from ICBMs. Now we worry about copper coiled pipe bombs, how much is this gonna cost us?
The simplest of the FCGs is small enough to be caried on a mans back, it’s called a Helical Generator and it’s both a stand alone FCG and the power source for the more powerful type of FCG called a Disk Generator, which doesn’t have to be much bigger, but can be.
Even the largest device could easily fit in a car, and consists of an MK-2 Helical Generator coupled to a Disk Generator, both of which include high explosives.
The electrical pulse generated by the Helical Generator creates both an EMP of it’s own, and the electrical pulse that powers the Disk Generator that produces another much more powerful EMP.
Pictures and diagrams provided would imply the explosion necessary to operate the device are realatively small, on the order of that necesasary to destroy a tank for instance.
Very devilish stuff.
If you really want to become depressed, read up on the Stuxnet Worm that we spent a $Billion to develope for use against Iran’s nuclear program. ( we deny we developed it, but we also brag about it?)
I’m sure our enemies are busy editing the worm as we speak.
I bet it won’t cost them a Billion to reverse-engineer it in order to attack us.
Passive Aggressive warfare. I love it.
Which means that if you know the length of the power line(s) between the substations (the loads) you can easily calculate the resonant frequency and there for the length of the pulse needed to induce the maximum voltage in the lines and/or area to place it for maximum coupling.
Pretty easy stuff, actually.
Not ‘could’, but DOES work.
That’s a very big problem, see my comment @13.
While Iran does not have a nuclear arsenal with which to respond, it’s hard to imagine that at some point the western attack on yet another Islamic country won’t push Pakistan over the brink?
The material on EMP weapons already includes mentions of Pakistan’s consideration of attacking India with this type of device.
Very sobering thought.
They can also tune the frequency to defeat faraday-caged devices.
A pulse tuned to the right frequency will ‘squeeze’ between the openings/perforations in the cage.
Two stories both true.
While working in the physics lab of a community college, I was tasked with optimizing a Van de graph generator to generate a higher charge. After finishing the modifications I tried it out and let it run for a few minutes to build up the charge then discharge it.
When the arc occurred during the discharge, at the same time at the opposite end of the lab, a Thermofax machine that was plugged in but not turned on also arced destroying the micro-switches inside and putting a 3 inch hole in the plastic feed belt.
The arc had created a large enough EMP to be picked up by the wiring in the lad and delivered to the Thermofax (the load).
Second experience.
While working in a TV shop in Florida as a technician, we receive a color set with lightning damage. But here is the situation. There was no damage at all to the power supply or antenna area. The usual place for a lightning spike to enter.
But the high voltage cage where the anode voltage for the picture tube was generated, was completely destroyed. Burned to a crisp.
Evidently the micro wave components of the lightning EMP had entered the high voltage cage through the ventilation holes in the cage. Which had acted as a band pass filter for the microwaves..
Inducing high voltage in the cage. Rather like putting the parts there in a microwave oven.
See story two above.
The openings/perforations in the cage will act as a band pass filter for a particular frequency. If you know the size of the openings, this is easy to calculate.
August 4, 2012
A grave Ministry of Defense bulletin flashed to Russian Naval and Marine Forces approaching their Mediterranean base in the Syrian port of Tartus is warning that Iran’s successful test-firing of their fourth generation indigenously-made Fateh 110 precision missile earlier today confirms that this Middle Eastern nation on the brink of total war with the West has achieved the ability to detonate at high altitude, and with great range, a much feared EPFCG weapon.
EPFCG stands for “explosively pumped flux compression generator” which is a device used to generate a high-power electromagnetic pulse by compressing magnetic flux using high explosive.
http://www.thetotalcollapse.com/iran-missile-test-sends-shockwave-across-entire-world/
Talking off the top of my head here, why not just put one faraday cage inside another? Make sure they don’t pass the same frequency or harmonics. Then plaster ‘em over so nobody can see the mesh size.
Boxturtle (Would that create a capacitor effect?)
I’m curious, do you think that website is reliable?
I read the article, it seems to uses mostly unnamed sources.
Can’t speak for the website in question but:
1) Iran did successfully test that missle.
2) It can easily reach the altitude needed for an EMP.
3) Iran has never been detected testing an EMP device. It is not known to me how easily such testing could be hidden.
4) If Iran had tested such a device, you can bet Israel would have made sure the world knew it.
5) Iran’s engineers and scientists are perfectly capable of developing and building such a device domestically.
Boxturtle (I think Israel would treat such as a WMD if used on them)
Israel – weapons manufacturing experts
and also … bullshitters extraodinaire
interesting, thanks.
a while ago, I wondered about Israel/ nuclear weapons tests, so I looked it up.
I guess there was a “flash” over the Indian ocean, which may have been an Israeli test of a nuclear weapon.
what a strange turn of events it would be if Israel was bluffing about nuclear weapons.
If the two were not physically connected at at least one point, yes.
Israel and France were joined at the hip during france’s work to their bomb. I dunno if the Vela incident you refer to is an israeli test or not, but even if it wasn’t they got everything they needed from France. Israeli scientists had open access and were present at the French tests.
Israel AIN’T bluffing about nukes. They can do everything with Nukes that the USA can.
Boxturtle (Including accurate delivery)
One point of all of this is that when you start talking about high frequency/high voltage AC you really do have to pay attention to all the little details.
That which you could ignore at voltages of 100 volts or so because of the small magnitude, you had better pay attention to at 100,000 volts or more.
My high school physics teacher confiscated a Leyden jar that a couple of my fellow students had charged with a Van de Graaff generator. (contrary to instructions)
He walked out into the hall intending to get it away from students, and find a safe place to discharge the thing, but on entering the hallway he came too close to a drinking fountain which resulted in what looked like a small, but very bright and noisy bolt of lightning as the thing discharged through the plumbing!
Way too much excitement.
Regarding website reliability: The more I read the MSM the looser my standards get, always subject to rational analysis as in this case. (Akin to: The more people I meet the more I love my dog.)
I’m skeptical of the article you linked to because I believe it confuses the risk of attack by nuclear EMP weapon detonated at high altitude with the effects of a non-nuclear EPFCG device which is powered by high-explosives and has a much smaller effective radius.
Detonation of a non-nuclear EPFCG at high altitude would be ineffective because of limited range of its EMP.
EPFCG have been considered as cruise missile warheads, but that would mean detonation at low altitude on small targets.
High altitude EMP weapons are nuclear powered by definition unless they are aimed rather precisely at high altitude targets.
High altitude, nuclear EMP weapons are intended to be effective over very wide areas, conceivably a whole country.
Basically there would be no increased fear on the part of the military of any EPFCG delivered at high altitude by new Iranian missiles, EPFCG weapons can and would be delivered at low altitude or, more likely by truck or boat.
Of course that doesn’t stop the propaganda machine from screaming bloody murder in support of war.
BTW, it’s EMP that damaged all the electronic equipment on the B52 bomber portrayed in the movie Dr. Strangelove.
If you remember the pilot managed to evade a direct hit by a nuclear anti-aircraft missile by evasive maneuvers, but his plane’s systems were badly damaged, including fires ignited by EMP damage to his electronics.
thanks.
We know that Iran has tested missiles with in-flight explosions.
2005 news report: Some of Iran’s tests of its Shahab-3 had been terminated before the completion of their ballistic trajectories, that is, exploding in mid-flight by what appeared to be a self-destruct mechanism. Iran has nevertheless described the tests as fully “successful.” Pry noted that the apparent contradiction would make sense “if Iran were practicing the execution of an EMP attack.”
So the general question: If they can do a high-altitude (nuclear) burst then why not a low-altitude (non-nuclear) burst near flight termination? Or is it rocket science? 8-)
What you’re describing is exactly why I say ;
The linked article would have us believe this test is very alarming.
What Iran is doing isn’t new and it isn’t more alarming than any other missile test, and they’ve done lots of testing.
All of this is meant to convince the American public that invading Iran is a necessary and reasonable possibility.
There has been a danger of EPFCG attack since the early 1950s when the first was built.
That weapon was built because of the accidental discovery of EMP damage discovered during atom bomb tests in the south Pacific.
Although this is a mysterious and interesting weapon in a certain sense, there is no reason for, and there is no real heightened fear on the part of our, or anybody’s military that Iran is going to use EMP weapons of either design to attack them.
So on to your ‘general’ question.
W4B; Iran cannot do a high-altitude (nuclear) burst for the very simple reason that Iran doesn’t have any nuclear weapons.
Why not indeed? They could have done it anytime in the last 62 years without a missile to complicate things. They could strap an EPFCG to a camel and walk it to precisely where they want it, that situation hasn’t changed since EPFCGs were invented.
The topic we’re discussing isn’t remotely related to rocket science, it’s about recognizing the truth that the USA and Israel are waging a propaganda war in support of a very real war against Iran.
1. The people who should be concerned are Iranians who are being threatened by Israel with EMP attack of the high-altitude, Nuclear version of EMP weapon.
2. Israel is admitting/leaking, that they have the capacity to eliminate all resistance on the part of Iranians by EMP attack, which is probably intended to both scare Iranians with the threat of an attack they can do nothing about, and;
3. Pacify the American and Israeli publics by minimizing the risk of war with Iran.
4. Confuse the public about the first offensive use of nuclear weapons since 1945, that is when Israel detonates a nuclear EMP weapon over Iran, they’ll claim and we’ll accept that it was in fact a Non-Nuclear EPFCG device.
So, a general question; do you always ask questions that obscure the truth rather than advance it?
Thanks, W4B.
You’re getting there.
Where?
The questions that I ask are based upon my assumptions, naturally, and not upon yours.
Assumptions, naturally, I understand.
Forget getting down into the weeds on the technology. Who is this guy?
And why does he create consternation?
Also, factor in the supposed snubbing of Netanyahu by Obama canceling a trip that it was not clear had ever been accepted. There seems to be a definite chill is US-Israeli relations despite the DNC and Obama giving Jerusalem to Netanyahu. Not making too much of it, but it bears watching even as Netanyahu tries to engineer the return of the US neo-cons (the real ones).
The ‘real neocons’ are returning?
I never knew they left?
Where have they been?
I think you might be thinking of Fail Safe and not Dr. Strangelove.
Oh here’s something too. Any EMP large enough to take out the power grid would also likely kill – nearly immediately – anyone attached to an electronic medical device. Most especially pace makers.
Nope, Slim Pickens was the captain of a 52 damaged by a near-miss with a soviet nuclear anti-aircraft missile.
The fact that his radio was damaged by the EMP meant he couldn’t receive the re-call code and his plane continued it’s mission and dropped the bomb that set off the doomsday machine.
Ironic that we’re looking at a real EMP possibly heralding the advance of a real doomsday scenario.
Which is what happened to B52 in Fail Safe. Explains the law suit between the two.
I’m sorry, I didn’t see any discussion on how Israel’s planes will get to Iran.
Which is to say, which country will they fly over?
Iraq?
Saudi Arabia?
Turkey?
I think the question is somewhat relevant.
Also, do they have an electronic devices that will detonate anti-shipping mines?
Anything that will upset those 200 knot Russian “squall” torpedoes?
The Iranians are like a fan-dancer; they show a little bit of what they’ve got, and then hide the rest.
I didn’t see any discussion of what Maliki’s response to an attack on Iran might be, much less Al Sadr’s…who owes Iran, big time. The Green Zone is home to a lot of American “contractors”. I tend to think that if we attack Iran, or quietly give the go-ahead to Israel to do it, including using our weight to get them unopposed over-flight rights over Turkey or Saudi Arabia, those “contractors” will be in a world of hurt. In fact, if I were an Iranian diplomat, or military man, I’d be watching carefully to see if, of a sudden, they go into some kind of lockdown/bunker profile. That could mean they’ve been given a heads-up about an impending attack.
Surely Obama wouldn’t give Netanyahu a “go” before the election, with the rocketing of oil prices which is certain to follow. I understand, with these tweedle-dum/tweedle-dee candidates, either one could sign off on an attack after they’ve won, but the effects could still cause some horrendous fallout in the mid-east and, in fact, the world.
At any rate, the “back to the stone age” posit leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
Advising Mitt Romney. And palling around with Netanyahu.
My reading. Upping the ante on chest-beating. And maybe a little pacifist scare-mongering to try to wake up the Israeli citizenry to the fact that stuff could get very dangerous. Not just a little surgical strike like that that crippled Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program for a while.
Well, Bibi’s certainly not done chest-beating, Tarheel…! 8-(
Netanyahu signals a coming end to patience on Iran…
Aha! The background news reports to justify Bibi’s statement:
Also, this reportorial doozie:
Smells like interference in an American election to me. Keep this line going in an attempt to overcome the fact that Obama ordered the mission that blew away Osama bin Laden.
Those ‘contractors’ are hostage for sure.
I wonder do you understand that the ‘Back to the Stone Age’ description means that after an EMP attack, there is no electrical device or system working, just like the stone age.
In the case of a big device it’s quiet and dark for a very large area.
Now I’ve heard that an automobile with a distributor, points and coil would continue to function?
But other than that, anything solid-state is dead, toast.
Which suit was brought by Peter George, author of Red Alert, the novel upon which Kubrick based Dr. Strangelove.
It was settled out of court, and Strangelove was released first.
So, you’re saying that electronic mines won’t detonate?
Will gasoline powered engines run?
And as I understand it, the EMP is generated by a nuclear explosion. How long does the effect last?
And, of course, how long does the effect of a nuclear attack on an Islamic state last?