High-altitude balloons, such as the one China has floated over mountain state military bases this week, are considered a key “delivery platform” for secret nuclear strikes on America’s electric grid, according to intelligence officials.
Spy balloons, used by Japan to drop bombs during World War II, are now far more sophisticated, can fly at up to 200,000 feet, evade detection, and can carry a small nuclear bomb that, if exploded in the atmosphere, would shut down the grid and wipe out electronics in a many-state-wide area.
The threat of balloon-launched electromagnetic pulse attacks was warned about by a congressional EMP commission and inside the military several years ago.
In a 2015 report for the American Leadership & Policy Foundation, Air Force Maj. David Stuckenberg, one of the nation’s leading EMP experts, wrote extensively about the threat balloons carrying bombs pose to national security.
“Using a balloon as a WMD/WME platform could provide adversaries with a pallet of altitudes and payload options with which to maximize offensive effects against the U.S.,” he wrote in the report.
“A high altitude balloon could be designed, created, and launched in a matter of months. There is nothing to prevent several hundred pounds of weapons material from being delivered to altitude,” he added. --->READ MORE HERE
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One of the nation’s leading experts on electromagnetic pulses warned that an EMP blast is the biggest danger to the United States because it could disable the entire electrical grid.
Renowned author and military historian William Forstchen told the Washington Examiner in a recent interview that the blast from an EMP would devastate the U.S. because America’s electrical infrastructure is outdated and ill-equipped to handle the sudden loss of electricity caused by the blast.
“We're very vulnerable to this type of attack,” Forstchen warned. “Increased tensions with China is a very worrisome thing. It would not necessarily be China that would do it, but if three of these were delivered over the United States by ballistic missile and detonated 200 miles above the Earth's atmosphere, they would short out our entire power grid and take us offline. According to congressional studies, upwards of 90% of all Americans would perish within a year. It is a very real and serious threat. Our entire infrastructure is antiquated. We must modernize it.”
An EMP, caused by the detonation of a nuclear weapon, would cause chaos in the country because of the pivotal role that electricity plays in everyday life, Forstchen said.
“Once we lose that basic fundamental building block of our society, electricity, where do you get your water?” Forstchen asked. “Where do you get your medication? Where do you get your food? How do you refill your car? How do you control populations that might turn to crime? We're just not prepared.” --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories:
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