TatankaGap
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suntzu wrote:
If you're really interested about this, I suggest you check out the recent WMD Commission Report (2008), recent pronouncements by the NNSA (mostly to do with fixes that need to be made to foster nuclear security), and there are some good articles available on google by a guy named David Albright (ISIS) -
And even tho, North Korea has missiles, I don't think China would allow them to launch radioactive weapons against the US for fear of ruining their real estate collateral -
suntzu wrote:
According to then CIA head Tenet, an atomic bomb can be had by non-state actors for about $100 million - clearly in their budget range. As far as missiles go, I agree with the above post - especially the threat form North Korea, but it is not beyond the abilities of terrorists to get an atomic bomb, steal a plane and blast it off in the atmosphere - or in a truck near a major piece of Americana or infrastructure (nuke plant, huge dam, etc.) -sheepdog wrote:You are speaking of an Electro Magnetic Pulse blast?...Doug, how about the one that's supposed to stop all electronic activity? Would that be a momentary interruption? How widespread would it be? It seems that disrupting our communications would benefit them most...but it would also disrupt theirs...
It would take in my opinion an atmospheric nuclear attack from a normal state actor in order for such an event to occur. China, or North Korea would possibly be the two primary aggressors in such a scenario. A non state entity would be unable to have the means to produce such an occurrence, UNLESS the non state actors could gain entrance to a launch facility-highly unlikely, unless they had someone on the inside--OR gain access to a mobile launcher like those which have been used by the Russians for some time--the Topol M for example, is a road mobile launcher...but to gain access to something like that the non state actors would need not only current, actionable intelligence as to where the launcher was deployed, but also the size of the Russian force currently guarding it, their means of communications would obviousy have to be cut so as to prevent signaling for reinforcement, current officer locations, and so on. With enough information a non state actor could conceivably gain access to a Russian mobile launcher--the results of that would be unpleasant to say the least.
I would think an EMP would knock out communications, including all computers--newer automobiles included would all be eliminated in such an event--and I would think the blackout would occur over quite a large area.
If you're really interested about this, I suggest you check out the recent WMD Commission Report (2008), recent pronouncements by the NNSA (mostly to do with fixes that need to be made to foster nuclear security), and there are some good articles available on google by a guy named David Albright (ISIS) -
And even tho, North Korea has missiles, I don't think China would allow them to launch radioactive weapons against the US for fear of ruining their real estate collateral -