Iran Is Serious About Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse Warfare

[Sally]

No doubt Iran will keep working on this until it is perfected.


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Nuclear Terrorism: President Obama's deal may help Iran develop a nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapon. A 2010 Iranian military textbook reveals Tehran's growing interest in the subject.

The circumstances surrounding the nuclear pact the U.S. is poised to sign with Islamofascist Iran are turning into black comedy.

The Associated Press just dropped, excuse the expression, a bombshell story: A copy of a draft of one of the side deals between Iran and the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency reveals that Tehran will be allowed to inspect its Parchin nuclear site itself, where it is suspected of testing nuclear detonators. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors won't get physical access and will just trust the Iranian self-inspectors.

In the meantime, Iran is obviously very interested in a type of nuclear weapon that Secretary of State John Kerry and the other negotiators for the U.S. and the major powers left unaddressed during their many months of talks — electromagnetic pulse.


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[Jroc]

No problem, Obama is clearing the way for the founding of this project

 

[aris2chat]

No doubt Iran will keep working on this until it is perfected.


Iran




An Iranian protester passes the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. AP View Enlarged Image

Nuclear Terrorism: President Obama's deal may help Iran develop a nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapon. A 2010 Iranian military textbook reveals Tehran's growing interest in the subject.

The circumstances surrounding the nuclear pact the U.S. is poised to sign with Islamofascist Iran are turning into black comedy.

The Associated Press just dropped, excuse the expression, a bombshell story: A copy of a draft of one of the side deals between Iran and the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency reveals that Tehran will be allowed to inspect its Parchin nuclear site itself, where it is suspected of testing nuclear detonators. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors won't get physical access and will just trust the Iranian self-inspectors.

In the meantime, Iran is obviously very interested in a type of nuclear weapon that Secretary of State John Kerry and the other negotiators for the U.S. and the major powers left unaddressed during their many months of talks — electromagnetic pulse.


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[waltky]

Recommendations made eight years ago to prevent catastrophic blackouts...

GAO Report: US Still Not Prepared for Possible EMP Attack
May 3, 2016 – Two weeks after North Korea threatened to launch nuclear strikes against the U.S., the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the federal government has still not implemented all of the recommendations made eight years ago to prevent catastrophic blackouts caused by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.

The recommendations were made in 2008 by the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electro-Magnetic Pulse Attack (EMP Commission). Although the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Energy (DOE) have taken actions to prepare against an EMP attack, they “have not established a coordinated approach to identifying and implementing key risk management activities to address EMP risks,” concluded a March 24 GAO report. In addition, “DHS has not fully leveraged opportunities to collect key risk inputs – namely threat, vulnerability, and consequence information – to inform comprehensive risk assessments of electromagnetic events,” even though such events “pose great risk to the security of the nation.” The report was requested last July by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as it was looking into the EMP threat posed by Iran and North Korea. In 2008, the commission warned that “a high altitude nuclear explosion is one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences.” If such an attack were to cause a nationwide blackout lasting as long as a year, up to 90 percent of the American people could die due to starvation, disease and societal collapse.

That apocalyptic scenario is not as far-fetched as it might seem, according to former CIA director James Woolsey. “On March 9, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, a paranoid psychopath, displayed a nuclear missile warhead he threatens to launch against the Unites States and its allies. “The public is being misled by the White House, some so-called ‘experts’ and mainstream media casting doubt on whether the Great Leader’s threat is real,” Woolsey and Peter Vincent Pry, a former CIA analyst and executive director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, wrote in an April 24th oped published in the Washington Times. “The president and the press is missing, or ignoring, the biggest threat from North Korea – their satellites,” which are “now in south polar orbits, evading many U.S. missile defense radars and flying over the United States from the south, where our defenses are limited. “Both satellites – if nuclear armed – could make an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack that could black out the U.S. electric grid for months or years, thereby killing millions.” “Congress has known for over a decade, since 2004 when the EMP Commission delivered its first report, about the existential threat to the United States from electric grid vulnerability. Yet nothing has been done to protect the grid,” Pry wrote in a March 28 blog post.

The GAO report noted that besides an EMP attack, naturally occurring geomagnetic disturbances (GMD) could also severely damage the nation’s electrical grid. Since it is “not feasible or cost-effective to protect all infrastructure assets across the electricity sector,” the commission “specifically recommended that DHS and DOE prioritize nodes that are critical for the rapid recovery of other key sectors that rely upon electricity to function, including those assets that must remain in service or be restored within hours of an EMP attack,” the report stated. However, “DHS and DOE have not taken actions to identify key electrical infrastructure assets as required given their respective critical infrastructure responsibilities under the NIPP [National Infrastructure Protection Plan],” according to GAO.

After interviewing federal employees and industry experts, GAO auditors concluded that securing the grid is not a top federal priority even though the consequences of an EMP/GMD even could be catastrophic nationwide. “According to officials within the DHS Office of Policy, addressing EMP risks has generally been a lower priority compared to other risks due to a combination of differing opinions on the likelihood of these events and their expectation that other federal agencies will be involved in responding,” such as the Department of Defense. Counterterrorism and counterdrug efforts “remain higher priorities for the department,” the GAO report noted, even though “not securing the electric grid from electromagnetic events could result in the loss of electrical services essential to maintaining our national economy and security.”

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US defense secretary says Russia is 'nuclear saber-rattling'
May 3, 2016 — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter blasted what the U.S. and its allies see as Russian aggression in Europe, saying Tuesday that Moscow is "going backward in time" with warlike actions that compel an American military buildup on NATO's eastern flank.

"We do not seek to make Russia an enemy," Carter said at a ceremony to install a new head of the military's U.S. European Command and top NATO commander in Europe. "But make no mistake: We will defend our allies, the rules-based international order, and the positive future it affords us," he said. Carter's remarks reflect U.S. aggravation with Moscow on multiple fronts, including its intervention in eastern Ukraine, its annexation of Crimea in 2014 and what Carter called Russian efforts to intimidate its Baltic neighbors — countries the United States is treaty-bound to defend because they are NATO members.

Carter said the "most disturbing" Russian rhetoric was about using nuclear weapons. "Moscow's nuclear saber-rattling raises troubling questions about Russia's leaders' commitment to strategic stability, their respect for norms against the use of nuclear weapons, and whether they respect the profound caution that nuclear-age leaders showed with regard to brandishing nuclear weapons," he said. The end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was thought to have virtually ended the prospect of nuclear conflict with Moscow. But the speeches at Tuesday's change-of-command ceremony emphasized the possibility of history repeating itself, or at least ending a period of warmer U.S.-Russian relations.

Senior White House officials said the U.S. and its partners were shifting into a new phase focused on military deterrence to Moscow. Additional NATO forces that will rotate through countries on Russia's eastern flank will be enough to defend NATO countries if Russia were to attack, said the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. To that end, the U.S. plans to add a third U.S. Army combat brigade in Europe in the coming year as part of a $3.4 billion initiative, Carter said. On Monday, he said NATO is considering establishing a continuous rotation of up to 4,000 troops in the Baltic states and possibly Poland.

That force, which could include some U.S. troops, is among options expected to be considered at a NATO defense meeting in June. U.S. officials said they were encouraging other NATO members to commit troops to the force as well. But U.S. attempts to control or direct Russia haven't fared well. The U.S has been unable to end Russia's occupation of parts of Ukraine and support for separatist rebels. And Washington is desperately seeking Moscow's help to enforce a cease-fire in Syria between the Russian-backed government and Western-supported rebels, and eventually usher President Bashar Assad out of power. On both fronts, the United States has been running into brick walls with the Russians. U.S. officials said that they had "explicitly compartmentalized" the various issues the U.S. is discussing with Russia. Yet it's unlikely that Russia's government sees it that way.

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[montelatici]

You have to have the ability to explode a nuclear weapon to generate an EMP. So, only the U.S., Russia, China, France, the UK, India, Pakistan, Israel and maybe North Korea can do it. Don't know what Iran has to do with it.

 

[dani67]

usa is cheating now.maybe we must break deal and make nuclear .......

 

[Jroc]

 

[montelatici]

Iran does not have a nuclear capability nor an ICBM. You are a nutter.

 

[Moonglow]

No problem, Obama is clearing the way for the founding of this project

With sonic fart applications...

 

[dani67]

Iran on Nuclear Deal: “Nothing Has Happened”
April 15, 2016

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On April 15, Valiollah Seif, Governor of the Central Bank of Iran, said that “almost nothing” has happened since the nuclear deal was implemented in January. “Unless serious efforts are made by our partners to make the JCPOA work, in my view they have not honored their obligations,” he said during an event at the Council on Foreign Relations. The day before, Seif held the first bilateral meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, opening a new channel for U.S.-Iran interaction. The following is a copy of Seif’s prepared remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations, followed by a transcript of the question and answer session.

Seif: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I am delighted to be here today and have this discussion to the sidelines of the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings. Allow me first to thank the Council on Foreign Relations for the excellent arrangement made for this meeting. I will briefly present an overview of recent economic and financial developments in Iran, the progress made in strengthening the resilience of our economy, including the banking system, and our expectations for better economic ties with our partners in light of the significant trade and investment opportunities our country offers. I will also highlight the challenges we face in this post-sanctions environment, which we need to address to move forward.

Iran on Nuclear Deal: “Nothing Has Happened” | The Iran Primer

 

[HUGGY]

No doubt Iran will keep working on this until it is perfected.


Iran




An Iranian protester passes the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. AP View Enlarged Image

Nuclear Terrorism: President Obama's deal may help Iran develop a nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapon. A 2010 Iranian military textbook reveals Tehran's growing interest in the subject.

The circumstances surrounding the nuclear pact the U.S. is poised to sign with Islamofascist Iran are turning into black comedy.

The Associated Press just dropped, excuse the expression, a bombshell story: A copy of a draft of one of the side deals between Iran and the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency reveals that Tehran will be allowed to inspect its Parchin nuclear site itself, where it is suspected of testing nuclear detonators. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors won't get physical access and will just trust the Iranian self-inspectors.

In the meantime, Iran is obviously very interested in a type of nuclear weapon that Secretary of State John Kerry and the other negotiators for the U.S. and the major powers left unaddressed during their many months of talks — electromagnetic pulse.


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Iran Is Serious About Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse Warfare

Iran in some regards is not unlike North Korea. They have a habit of making grave miscalculations and pay horrifically for this stupidity. I believe the US is just waiting patiently for either one of these countries as well as Pakistan to cross a line that will demand a serious crippling response. It will only take one of them to get taught a lesson in a way that all others will step back and cower for ever thinking that it is wise to provoke our power.