[sbe-eas] Subject: Re: PEP Stations

[Bob Reite]

Exactly the smallest nuke that would actually have a fission chain 
reaction and a kiloton or above yield would be the size of a steamer trunk.

On 2/5/12 2:04 PM, Stephen Weber wrote:

> A “suitcase nuke” can be nothing more than a “dirty” conventional

> explosive; one with radioactive isotopes added to the mix to cause

> contamination. No actual nuclear chain reaction can happen with anything

> remotely that small and light (I did just finish reading the complete

> history of the Manhattan Project). No chain reaction = no EMP.

> Steve

> *From:* Adrienne Abbott <mailto:nevadaeas at charter.net>

> *Date:* Sunday, February 05, 2012 10:27 AM

> *To:* 'SBE EAS Exchange - a mail list for discussion about the Emergency

> AlertSystem and other emergency communication issues.'

> <mailto:sbe-eas at sbe.org>

> *Subject:* Re: [sbe-eas] Subject: Re: PEP Stations

> But that is "Cold War" thinking while a more realistic possibility is a

> "rogue nation" such as Iran or Syria or North Korea, or one of a dozen or so

> terrorist groups, setting off a "suitcase nuke" at any altitude, including

> ground level. Politics aside, the questions should be more along the lines

> of what impact a smaller bomb at lower level would have on communications,

> whether that bomb is targeted at the US, South Korea, Saudi Arabia or

> Israel. What satellites, if any would be lost? What would happen to

> terrestrial communications? And would the public panic over an above-ground

> nuclear detonation and the fallout be worse than the impact on

> communications and utilities?

> Adrienne

>

> "Radio burps, it cries, it needs to be fed all the time, it requires

> constant attention, but we love it." Jim Aaron WGLN

>

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> Subject: [sbe-eas] Subject: Re: PEP Stations

>

> The problem would be a nuclear attack, as remote as that would be.

>

> The FIRST thing that we would know is that many things would stop working

> because the Russians or Chinese would set off a Hydrogen Bomb at high

> altitude above the middle of the US, or maybe even more than one. The

> result would be a HEMP Event, or High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse. This

> will induce high Voltage spikes in about every piece of wire in the country,

> frying electronics, including GPS satellites, and Geosynchronous satellites

> within view, or about everything we use.

>

> Dish Network and DirectTV would have flying junk in place of the satellites.

> Tube equipment would likely still work (which is why the Russians use really

> small tubes in their military aircraft and we use a ton of electromagnetic

> shielding).

>

> Otherwise, it is a great idea.

>

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