The United States must take seriously the threat of a nuclear emphasis, warns the expert

A nuclear electromagnetic pulse blow (EMP) could paralyze the EE. UU ELECTRY RED.Communications, transport and other critical infrastructure for months, an expert warned.

The historian William Forsters, a more selling author of the New York Times and expert in EMS, discussed with Fox News Digital how the United States, and everyday Americans, can prepare for the “existential threat” posed by the attack.

“This is a very real threat,” he said. “The EMP is generated when a small nuclear weapon, from 40 to 60 kilotons or approximately three times the size of a Hiroshima pump, detonate 200 miles in the space over the United States. Establish an electrostatic discharge that falls into cascade to cascade The surface of the Earth, is feed on the millions of miles of cables that become antennas, feeds this in the electricity grid, overloads the grid and blows it. “

Forschen, citing reports from the 2002 and 2008 congress, said that 80% -90% of Americans would be dead a year later if an EMP strike occur.

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An electromagnetic pulse is an explosion of electromagnetic energy produced by a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere, considered capable of generalized damage to electricity lines, telecommunications and electronic equipment. (National Security Department)

While an EMP attack, at first glance, it seems to be more science fiction than a fact, Forestchen said that the potential of such attack was recognized decades ago.

“The thread of an EMP was performed for the first time during the nuclear test at a great altitude of sea stars of 1962. What happened was that it blow about 500 miles away from Hawaii and 200 miles,” he said. “They were able to recover the system in a matter of days, but what would it be like if I took a month, six months, a year or five years to fix?”

The late Peter PryA nuclear weapons expert and a former personnel director of the EM Commission of the Congress agreed. Before his death in 2022, Pry warned that the launch of Kim Jung one of a high altitude ballistic missile was proof of the EMP capacities of North Korea against the United States.

“The cars would be paralyzed,” Pry to Fox Business ‘told Fox’ Lou Dobbs tonight In May 2017. “Airplanes could fall from heaven. You would have explosions of natural gas gas pipelines, overloads of nuclear reactors. And worst of all, if you had a prolonged blackout, it would be a serious threat to the survival of the Americans people. “

A geomagnetic disturbance is a temporary disturbance of the earth’s magnetosphere caused by a solar wind shock and/or magnetic field clouds that interacts with the earth’s magnetic field. (National Security Department)

The EMP threat promoted President Donald Trump, during his first term in 2020, to issue a study with the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of National Security (DHS).

“Just in recent days, the Trump administration is again talking about the iron dome of Israel but in the United States,” he said.

Forschen shared three ways in which the United States could prepare for a possible EMP attack.

Update the electricity grid

By calling the current “outdated”, Forestchen argued that it should be updated for the 21st century.

“It is afraid to realize that almost all our electricity is pumped into systems that are 30, even 40 years,” he said.

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Joseph J. Brettel, communications consultant and former Energy spokesman, wrote in a Fox News digital opinion piece that the electric grid “desperately needs investment and modernization.”

“This is not just an infrastructure problem; it is an economic opportunity,” he wrote. “Unleashing vast resources and determination of problem solving towards the network, the president could solve a challenge of decades while creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs.”

The rockets triggered from the south of Lebanon are intercepted by the Iron Dome Dome de Israel Air Defense System over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on August 23, 2024. (Alaa Marey/AFP through Getty Images)

Create an American iron dome

Similar to Israel, the United States needs an iron dome, Forestchen said.

“Ronald Reagan He proposed it in the 80s, was known as Star Wars, “he said.” But that was impossible at that time, but with the technology we have today and guys like (Elon) musk, it is very possible that we could make one for relatively lower cost compared to other things. “

Trump has ordered the construction of an advanced antimile defense coat of next generation to protect the United States from air attack. In January, he signed an executive order that tasks Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth With the elaboration of plans to build a “Iron Dome for America” ​​that will protect the Americans from the threat of missiles launched by a foreign enemy.

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In doing so, Trump maintained a campaign promise to prioritize the defense of missiles.

“For the next period we will build a large iron dome over our country,” Trump said during a West Palm Beach event June 14. “We deserve a dome … It is an antimile defense shield, and everything will be done in the United States.”

Stay safe during an emergency with these supplies. (Istock)

Reserve emergency supplies

Forschen encouraged people to prepare for the potential threat By storing needs.

“I urge all US citizens to take this seriously and prepare a little. I’m not talking about turning their home into a strength,” he said. “I am saying that they have one or two months of hand emergency supplies.”

As a resident of Asheville, North Carolina, Forestchen said that devastation after Hurricane Helene has been “horrible”, leaving a few months still homeless after the natural disaster.

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“And this is a small regional event, imagine if it were all the United States,” he said.

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