Another failed North Korean missile test
What, me worry? North Korea today attempted another intermediate-range ballistic missile test today, once again ending in failure.
This is the second test this week, both of which have failed.
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What, me worry? North Korea today attempted another intermediate-range ballistic missile test today, once again ending in failure.
This is the second test this week, both of which have failed.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
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for a psycho state they are determined
They can’t hit a city in Japan, that’s for sure. Especially when they have to avoid the anti missile defense in place. Now. But it is just a matter of time, and they will be able to do it. NK must be reduced from this ability soon, before it is too late.
I worry that they will send a nuke straight up to about 400 km (incidentally the altitude of the ISS) where a detonation interacts with the magnetic field or ion layer whatever complicated and classified physics is behind this, to cause high energy electrons to rush along the field lines and fry all exposed electronics in northern China, Japan and of course all of Korea. As the starting signal for an all out frontal attack with short range nukes and chemical weapons and their massive army. I think they would win that scenario within a couple of weeks. Tens of millions of civilians surrounding Korea would die within weeks just because they lack electricity. And there would be no more cheap electronics manufactured in the world. The deepest global depression ever would follow when a million companies world wide are bankrupt by losing their suppliers and business customers. Unemployment would increase by a billion people almost immediately.
And they just need to launch it straight up over their own territory. No aiming needed. Very hard for anti-missile systems to it shoot down. And it would be politically very challenging to try over NK’s own territory. Maybe they could do this already today?
I say: Strike first! Totally nuke NK now! Smash all their deep bunkers, even in the center of the cities where I suppose the most important ones are located, and their weapons of mass destruction industries, all with heavy nuclear ground detonations. Fry their entire conventional troop saturated border zone with a coast-to-coast chain of nuclear air detonations. That’s the only humanitarian thing to do. It would save a billion human lives worldwide.
Localfluff,
This is the declassified physics behind electromagnetic pulses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse#Characteristics_of_nuclear_EMP
Very strong solar flares can produce some electromagnetic effects due to the electrons spinning into the atmosphere, which is why power grids in the far northern latitudes are considered a bit vulnerable to such strong solar flares.