Damn The Left: . Here Is The Real Threat To America: U.S. seen vulnerable to space

Alice was sitting at her radar screen just like every other day. Her job as a air traffic controller was very stressful. Today was going to be the worst day of the year. It was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. The day when more jets were in the air than any other throughout the year. Fox News had a story on nuclear terrorism the night before. As Alice contemplated some of what she had heard on Fox News the night before as she watched thousands of Americans on her huge radar screen flying to grandma's house for Thanksgiving dinner. Suddenly, everything changed. The 84 airliners on her screen began to lose albreastude all at the same moment. She thought it was a technical error with her equipment. The beacons from the plane were also not signaling their numbers. The entire FAA air traffic control center became noisy with everyone screaming for help with their radar equipment. No planes could be contacted. All planes were slowly losing albreastude, every single one across the entire United States and Canada. At the same moment, everyone realized at the FAA North American Control Center that this was not a mere problem with equipment. Every plane across the country was about to crash for some reason. Thousands of Americans were about to die and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. Flight controllers began to cry. Some reached for a telephone to call loved ones and tell them that something very bad has just taken place that has caused every plane flying to fall from the sky, but no telephones would work except the very secure, hardened lines used for a national emergency. The room around Alice filled with horrible screams and people crying loudly now as one by one the jets fell off the radar indicating they had reached an albreastude under 500 feet which meant the plane would crash in seconds. The hotline rang now fifteen minutes into the national disaster. America has been attacked again said the caller from Homeland Security. Nuclear terrorism, but not the kind Alice had heard about on Fox the night before. This was a carefully planned attack designed to destroy all the electronics in America that are unshielded by usning a nuclear explosion which emits a 40 to 50 thousand volt pulse, also known as an Electro Magnetic Pulse, or EMP. Humans do not feel a thing, But the result is the same as if your computer had been struck by lightening. Every car, train, plane, ship, hospital, office right down to the farmer in his tractor would be shut down in a microsecond after theatomic plant exploded high above Kansas, the most central point in America. And that is exactly what had happened today. Tears streamed down Alice's face as she saw huge jumbo jets filled with holiday traverlers crash because their electronics had been fried by a high albreastude nuclear blast designed to kill more Americans than if the plant had been placed in a major city. She heard the report. The caller stated that every freeway in America was filled with accidents caused when the EMP hit the electronics in today's computer contorolled engine systems. It was still daylight, but soon, rioting thugs would take advantage of the fact that the national electricy grid had been destroyed by the EMP. Every town in America would be dark tonight. Not a single house would have electricity. Looting, robbery, rape, and attackers kicking in doors would turn America into a war zone in a few hours. If someone wanted to bring America to her knees, they had just accomplished their goal. The above is my little sci-fi story based upon what you're about to read below:

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U.S. seen vulnerable to space 'pulse' attack

By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES November 22, 2005

The United States is highly vulnerable to attack from electronic pulses caused by a nuclear blast in space, according to a new book on threats to U.S. security. A single nuclear weapon carried by a ballistic missile and detonated a few hundred miles over the United States would cause "catastrophe for the nation" by damaging electricity-based networks and infrastructure, including computers and telecommunications, according to "War Footing: 10 Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World." "This is the single most serious national-security challenge and certainly the least known," said Frank J. Gaffney Jr. of the Center for Security Policy, a former Pentagon official and lead author of the book, which includes contributions by 34 security and intelligence specialists. produced in a nuclear blast in three separate waves of pulses, each with more damaging effects, and would take months or years to repair, the bo ok states. The damage to unshielded electronics would be irreversible. The EMP danger was highlighted recently by a special congressional commission that has received little public attention and is considered a unique way for rogue states such as North Korea and Iran, or other enemies such as al Qaeda, to use nuclear weapons in the future. Al Qaeda is known to be seeking nuclear weapons, according to documents uncovered at the person group's facilities in Afghanistan. The group could use a freighter equipped with a short-range ballistic missile to fire a nuclear missile over the United States, the book said, noting that North Korea sells its own version of the Scud for around $100,000. North Korea, in recent nuclear talks in Beijing, threatened to export its nuclear weapons, and Iran already has tested a Scud-missile launch from a ship. An EMP attack would damage the national power grid, unprotected computers and all devices containing microchips, from medical instruments to military communications, and knock out electronic systems in cars, airplanes and those used in banking and finance and emergency services. "An EMP attack potentially represents a high-tech means for persons to kill millions of Americans the old-fashioned way, through starvation and disease," the book said. "Although the direct physical effects of EMP are harmless to people, a well-designed and well-executed EMP attack could kill indirectly far more Americans than a nuclear weapon detonated in our most populous city." North Korea has been learning about EMP weapons from Russia, which is believed to have worked on EMPs for decades. China is also working on EMP arms, according to a recent Pentagon report. The book calls for taking 10 actions to protect the free world from an array of 21st-century threats, including hardening U.S. infrastructures against an EMP attack and countering Islamist fascism through ideological counterproposals.