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DETONATING a thermonuclear warhead 400km above Washington would instantly fry most of the nation’s power grid — and electronics.
The idea is not about melting a city, set enormous fires and irradiate vast tracks of terrain.
It’s about eliminating a nation’s entire infrastructure in a single flash.
There’s little surprise that North Korean state media has been lauding the power of Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP).
This is where the gamma radiation of a high-altitude nuclear blast interacts with the ionosphere — a blanket of electrons and electrically charged particles surrounding the Earth — to send a series electromagnetic pulses spearing into the ground below.
Once this burst of radiation strikes the ground it can induce strong currents — particularly in electrical cables and phone lines. This can overload and destroy electrical networks, as well as cause delicate circuit boards to fuse.
An entire economy can be brought to a standstill in nanoseconds.
In the words of former director of the CIA James Woolsey, it would bring the United States “to a cold, dark halt”.
ELECTRIC WAR

It’s an effect similar to that of Earth being struck by a serious solar storm, or — at a much smaller scale — when lightning causes a surge in a power grid.
North Korea’s state news agency commented on just such a tactic at the weekend. It follows a series of similar observations about the power of EMP in July.
The latest statement boasts North Korea’s new bomb “is a multifunctional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack.”

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/north-korea-threat-emp-attack-can-destroy-a-nations-entire-infrastructure-in-a-flash/news-story/61b9c40ecef93315fcc89fa6af4f6fb8
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KIM Jong-un needs only one hydrogen bomb to bring America to its knees. And he knows it. This is the nation-wide effect it can have in nanoseconds.
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It’s about eliminating a nation’s entire infrastructure in a single flash.

Not even close to possible.  Fear mongering, fake news.
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Not even close to possible.  Fear mongering, fake news.

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Not even close to possible.  Fear mongering, fake news.

ABSOLUTELY!   Total BS!
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KIM Jong-un needs only one hydrogen bomb to bring America to its knees. And he knows it. This is the nation-wide effect it can have in nanoseconds.

100% BS.

The Starfish Nuclear test cited in the article as proof impacted 1% of the streetlights in Oahu with no other significant damage to the electrical systems.  These particular streetlights blew the very low-tech fuses that existed in one type of streetlight.

http://ece-research.unm.edu/summa/notes/SDAN/0031.pdf

We have far more advanced surge-protection on our distribution and transmission systems.  The modern protective relays act faster by an order of magnitude.
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Not even close to possible.  Fear mongering, fake news.

That's right.

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Not even close to possible.  Fear mongering, fake news.

 :hands:

Frankly, a regular old nuclear bomb would be more devastating, not just for us but for the lil fat midget himself as well, because we'd retaliate massively.