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- From Ted Twietmeyer
5-5-1
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- Hi - First let me state, that overall you carry the
hottest and most accurate news of things I've seen yet. But the single-bomb
EMP threat is only partially true. As someone who spent 20+ years as a
DoD contractor, I can tell you that such a high altitude burst will only
be affective to a few square miles below the detonation point.
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- Yes, it would knock out power and communications. It
also does much more - it induces approximately 1,000 volts/foot in any
metallic object. But remember this is a pulse of only 1 nanosecond duration
! You wouldn't even feel it. Your nerves need several milliseconds to
even begin to respond with pain or pleasure. And since this is a microwave
frequency pulse, microwave propagation rules apply. This means the transmission
line theory also applies. And the human body is a terrible transmission
line !
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- As for the pulse, yes, at high altitude it causes an
avalanche of electrons. It has been estimated it will be a 1 gigawatt+
pulse. This is will penetrate the smallest spaces between sheets of aluminum
in an aircraft, and fry the wiring and electronics at each end. So besides
the power and communications going down - so will aircraft - falling
like rocks from the sky. Anything electronic - planes, cars, trucks, buses,
boats, etc. will ALL be permanently damaged and non-functional.
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- But this is only within a few miles of the burst. I
don't use the term "ground zero" since it occurs several miles
up.
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- And here's something you also probably don't know about:
the Navy STILL HAS on their ships, radar based on vacuum tubes. Why? Because
they are resistant to EMP pulses. Vacuum tubes are almost indestructible
(except when a hammer is involved.)
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- Just though some additional facts would be useful to
you. Sincerely- Ted
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- WASHINGTON, DC - Investigative
reporter Kenneth R. Timmerman reveals in the upcoming issue of Insight
Magazine a little-known threat by top Russian officials in 1999 to explode
a nuclear weapon high in the atmosphere over America, to knock out the
U.S. power and communications grid.
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- The threat was delivered by the third-ranking Communist
Party leader and a top Duma leader and former Soviet ambassador to the
United States during negotiations over an international settlement to NATO's
air war against Yugoslavia during the Kosovo crisis in 1999.
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- U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R, MD), who was present when
the threat was made, tells Insight: "This is a much more serious threat
than the Chinese threatening Los Angeles or New York during the Taiwan
Straight Crisis in 1996."
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- Whereas the United States as a nation could survive a
nuclear attack on individual cities, "it would be very difficult to
live without power, communications and computers anywhere in America,"
Bartlett said. "A nuclear EMP attack would bring us to our knees as
a nation."
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- Insight also reveals Russia's proliferation of similar
weapons, known as High-Powered Microwave (HPM) and radio-frequency (RF)
weapons to China and rogue nations, who could use them to disable U.S.
civilian infrastructure in a terrorist attack.
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- Insight reveals that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
will soon name 9 members of a newly-created Commission to study the EMP
threat, mandated by Congress last year.
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- For more details or interviews, contact Donna Harkin,
Insight editorial desk: 202-636-8805, or e-mail Kenneth Timmerman: krt@timmerman2000.com
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