Friday, October 29, 2010

USA Today on EMP

One EMP burst and the world goes dark
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
The sky erupts. Cities darken, food spoils and homes fall silent. Civilization collapses.
End-of-the-world novel? A video game? Or could such a scenario loom in America's future?
There is talk of catastrophe ahead, depending on whom you believe, because of the threat of an electromagnetic pulse triggered by either a supersized solar storm or terrorist A-bomb, both capable of disabling the electric grid that powers modern life.
Electromagnetic pulses (EMP) are oversized outbursts of atmospheric electricity. Whether powered by geomagnetic storms or by nuclear blasts, their resultant intense magnetic fields can induce ground currents strong enough to burn out power lines and electrical equipment across state lines.
The threat has even become political fodder, drawing warnings from former House speaker
Newt Gingrich, a likely presidential contender.
"We are not today hardened against this," he told a
Heritage Foundation audience last year. "It is an enormous catastrophic threat."
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2010-10-26-emp_N.htm

Friday, September 3, 2010

Fidel Castro continues to warn of nuclear holocaust

Fidel Castro leads first mass rally in four years
Sep 3 04:07 PM US/Eastern

"Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Friday completed a return to public life, leading his first mass rally since an illness forced him from the presidency four years ago.

Castro, 84, wearing his trademark olive green uniform -- but without any military insignias -- addressed thousands of students and others at the University of Havana, where he warned about the threat of nuclear war should the United States or Israel attack Iran. "

"Of late, Castro's attentions have shifted from Cuba's domestic scene and the ongoing tensions between the Communist isle and the United States.

Instead, the aging revolutionary has begun to warn of a "nuclear holocaust" and now calls for a world free of weapons of mass destruction."




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Thursday, September 2, 2010