EMP Preparedness

EMP PREPAREDNESS
Overview

Electromagnetic Pulse (“EMP”) has been known to modern science since July of 1962, when the Starfish Prime nuclear detonation was performed nearly 250 miles above Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean by U.S. scientists. The resulting blast affected some of the electronic and electrical systems in the Hawaiian Islands, some 870 miles away, tripping circuit breakers, knocking out street lights, triggering burglar alarms and damaging a telecommunications relay facility.

From the picture here, you can see widespread red air glow amid the dark clouds over Hawaii, caused mostly by x-ray-excited atomic oxygen created out of the detonation. 

At the same time, the Russians were also testing high altitude nuclear devices, which resulted in damage to overhead and underground buried cables at distances of nearly 375 miles, as well as surge arrestor burnout, sparkgap breakdown, blown fuses and power supply breakdowns.

On May 2, 1999, during the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia, high ranking members of the Russian Duma, who were meeting with a U.S. congressional delegation to discuss the Balkans conflict, intimated the use of an EMP attack against the United States in a veiled threat. This threat has been known to the United States government since then and little has been done to protect the nation’s infrastructure; however, the U.S. government has taken steps to protect its own infrastructure, leaving the nation’s power grid and the entire consumer supply network of electric customers completely at risk. Needless to say, the current vulnerability of our power grid can both invite and reward attack if it isn’t addressed soon.

EMP PREPAREDNESS 


At this time in this nation’s history, we are more vulnerable politically than ever before due to a perceived rampant pandemic, civil unrest due to socio-economic imbalances and social infighting among our two-party government leaders and constituents alike. It would be very easy for a rogue state like North Korea or Iran to launch a nuke from a merchant ship overhead and We the People would have no idea anything was wrong until minutes after the detonation. Further, superpowers like Russia and China could be tempted to use our political weaknesses against us and launch an EMP strike, followed by a physical invasion on American soil.


With the current conflict in today’s society, it would be a matter of days before total civil war broke out once the populace realized the major inconvenience of not having electricity, running water, sewer, completely broken supply chains and no means of contacting emergency services to quell the widespread social upheaval that would take place … and not just in the major cities either. Americans have armed themselves because they fear social unrest. What a better way to cause a civil war than to take away something everyone has become accustomed to rely on: electricity. 


UNDERSTANDING EMP 


EMP comes in 3 components: E1, E2 and E3.


E1, the first component, is a free-field energy pulse that basically creates an electromagnetic shock that occurs within a fraction of a billionth to a few billionths of a second, disrupting and damaging electronics-based control systems, sensors, communication systems, protective systems, computers, vehicle computer systems and cell phones over a very large area depending on the detonation altitude.


E2, the second component, is a subsequent, middle-time, slower-rising, longer-duration pulse that creates disruptive currents in long electricity transmission lines, resulting in damage to electrical supply and distribution systems that are connected to them. E2 would in essence, cripple the grid itself, much the same as a lightning strike knocking out a power substation.


E3, the third component, is a subsequent, slower-rising, longer-duration pulse that creates disruptive currents in long electricity transmission lines, wreaking further havoc on all of the interconnectivity within the power grid. 


UNDERSTANDING UNCLE SAM’S “PREPAREDNESS” MEASURES 


There have been at least 30 reports generated by various branches of government, along with think tank opinions and study group documents, all of which basically say … the U.S. government, despite the warnings, has done little to prepare itself for an EMP attack that just isn’t a matter of “IF” … but “WHEN”.


Many of these reports encourage the various government agencies, especially the Department of Homeland Security, to make the general public aware of the EMP catastrophic scenarios and to encourage direct participation of Americans to take action to prepare for such an eventuality. When’s the last time you’ve heard anything about EMP from the government or the media?


An EMP attack would be just the revenge a rogue state could use to send this country back into the Dark Ages. Our government hasn’t even gotten to the point of mandating the reinforcement of the various power grids. It has basically assembled research groups tasked with ways of stopping potential attacks … not actually preparing for the results of an EMP attack.


The most recent official publication that involves EMP issues was found in the Federal Register under Executive Order 13865 (March 26, 2019), signed by President Donald J. Trump, entitled, Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses. While this Executive Order outlines the purpose and definitions of EMP, the policies invoked are reactive based on gathered intelligence on the behaviors of those who would send America back into the Dark Ages as to protecting the Government’s ability to operate efficiently. Nothing in this Executive Order does anything to protect We the People from being able to survive in a world without power.


Thus, to date, there are no real infrastructure protections to stop another country with advanced nuclear technology from taking out America’s power grid by stealth. It is estimated that 3 out of 4 people will die within one (1) year after a full-scale EMP assault due to starvation and civil unrest.


While the science community has published numerous papers describing the aftereffects of an EMP assault, the research and development of any measures to prevent and thwart an EMP event are still sorely lacking. 


The U.S. Government has understood for over two decades that an EMP attack is not a matter of “if”, but “when” and still has not done enough to prevent a complete societal upheaval if the worst should happen. 



WHEN THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENS 


Given the foregoing definitions described here, if the unthinkable happens, here’s what you can expect to occur:


  • Think about what happened in Hurricane Katrina. It took help weeks to respond once the government surveyed the actual damage. Now take that same scenario, but this time, take electricity and any working computer systems and electronics out of the equation. There will be no way of surveying anything remotely for months.


  • Without any preparations at all, you will be like tens of millions of other Americans who were caught off guard and will succumb to disease, civil unrest and starvation within months of the EMP event.


  • If you happen to be in an airplane at the time of the assault, the plane will not be able to use any of its electronic circuits to navigate efficiently. It becomes highly likely that the plane, along with hundreds of others in flight, will crash into the ground.


  • If you happen to be driving some distance from your home and your electronic circuits are “fried” in your vehicle, like millions of other drivers, you’ll find yourself stranded in dangerous conditions. It is also possible that if you’re traveling at a high rate of speed when the EMP event occurs, your vehicle (or other vehicles around you) could be involved in a multiple major crash. These types of crashes will litter the highways, hampering rescue efforts nationwide.


  • If you happen to be on life support or a ventilator due to COVID-19 or you depend on electricity to supply your medical needs to exist, these systems will fail, causing thousands of deaths almost instantaneously.

 

  • Running water and sewer systems will fail, food supply chains will fail, emergency services will fail … which means you won’t be able to call 9-1-1 because there won’t be any way to communicate with authorities. 



WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PREPARE FOR AN EMP EVENT 



There is new technology on the market right now that is available for homeowners to protect their own “grid”, whether it be for off-grid solar power, whole-house generator power or simply anything connected to your home’s circuit panel, which is very inexpensive to purchase and install. While every effort is being made to facilitate protective measures within the individual power companies who are still “short of the goal” when it comes to protecting their customers’ supply of electricity, you still have time to take action and prevent all of your assets that operate using electric current from being “fried” in the event of an EMP assault, whether it be from solar flares, coronal mass ejections, lightning strikes or the unthinkable attack from an enemy that can get access to that destructive technology and use it.


Obviously, there’s much more than just loading up on provisions and essential goods in anticipation of a negative social event occurring when the power goes out.


Contact DK Consultants of Florida at (512) 718-9604 today, or you can email us at DKCFL@protonmail.com for more information and our checklist of THINGS YOU CAN DO TO PREPARE FOR AN EMP EVENT. We’ll send you this checklist FREE OF CHARGE via email. 



Other useful information links:


https://marketbusinessnews.com/solar-flare-push-us-back-dark-agesyears/131247/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection 



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