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re: North Korea might use EMP strike on USA
Posted on 5/8/17 at 4:34 pm to blueboy
Posted on 5/8/17 at 4:34 pm to blueboy
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Even if true, they'd still need a delivery system and nothing of consequential size would ever make it through to US soil.
What if NK were to load it on a container ship and ship it here? I am sure that the vast majority of containers entering the US every year and never checked.
And if it was checked it us usually done here (on our soil, in port). Put a tamper switch on the door and if someone opens it to inspect it, boom. But if it was not detected, load it on an 18 wheeler and ship it to Washington DC. Kinda like a trojan horse.
Another reason to ship it in is that it would be to make it harder for us to determine who sent it here? Was it home grown wackos, ISIS, Iran, or Al-Qaeda, or any other number of people who would love to attack us.
This post was edited on 5/8/17 at 4:37 pm
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Posted on 5/8/17 at 4:56 pm to alphaandomega
quote:They are, and a significant non-nuclear EMP would still require a large chemical explosion. Any container holding the required chemicals would never make it here.
What if NK were to load it on a container ship and ship it here? I am sure that the vast majority of containers entering the US every year and never checked.
If it were that easy to ship illicit or dangerous materials into the US from abroad, cocaine would be $25 a kilo by now.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 5:12 pm to alphaandomega
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What if NK were to load it on a container ship and ship it here? I am sure that the vast majority of containers entering the US every year and never checked.
You'd be surprised how well the intelligence community keeps tabs on nuclear material.
IMO something that big wouldn't slip through the cracks especially coming from NK or anyone they would be doing business with.
I've personally seen things like this happen when I was in the military and never heard a peep on the news. Entire cargo ships diverted to a friendly port by US warships due to Intel of material in a certain container. Cargo ship captain burning paperwork, the whole 9 yards.
This post was edited on 5/8/17 at 5:17 pm
Posted on 5/8/17 at 5:18 pm to alphaandomega
An EMP capable of debilitating the Continental United States cannot be deployed in a fricking shipping container at water level.
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