Saturday, March 30, 2013

JAN MARKELL DREAM I HAD-GOOD FRIDAY HAPPENINGS

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

ABOUT 4 DAYS AGO I HAD A DREAM LIKE I HAVE NEVER HAD BEFORE.SATAN WAS TRYING TO GET ME AGAINST JAN MARKELL.IN MY DREAM. JAN MARKELL WAS TALKING TO A PERSON BEHIND A BANK TELLER OR HOTEL RECEPTION COUNTER.THEN SUDDENLY IN MY DREAM I GOT RIGHT BEHIND HER AND STARTED LISTENING WHAT SHE WAS SAYING.THE GUY BEHIND THE COUNTER WAS SAYING YOU CAN'T GET ANY MORE MONEY.AND JAN WAS TRYING TO GET MORE OFF HIM.THIS WAS OVIOUSLY A SATANIC DREAM OF CURRUPTION TO TRY TO GET ME TO HATE JAN MARKELL.AND I REFUSED TO BELIEVE THIS LIE SATAN WAS TRYING TO PULL ON ME.JAN IS AN ISRAELI AS WELL AS DOING GREAT SHOWS.I LISTEN TO HER SHOWS EVERY SATURDAY IF THERE ON.

I FIGURE JAN MARKELLS NEXT SHOW TODAY MAR 30,13 WILL REALLY BE REAVEALING SOMETHING AGAINST SATAN OR HE WOULD NOT HAVE TRYED TO GET ME AGAINST HER IN THIS DREAM.I CAN'T WAIT TO LISTEN TO THIS SHOW.I PREDICT IT WILL BE A GREAT SHOW AGAINST SATAN.I HAVE NEVER HAD A DREAM LIKE THIS AGAINST A GREAT WOMEN OR MAN OF GOD EVER.SO I KNOW HER NEXT SHOW WILL BE AMAZING.

LISTEN TO JANS SHOW HERE MAR 30,13
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/understanding-the-times/listen/

GOD BLESS YOU JAN MARKELL FOR GETTING TRUTH OUT TO THE WORLD.

UPDATE:I LISTENED TO THE SHOW AT 9AM MAR 30,13.I KNEW THIS SHOW WAS AN IMPORTANT ONE.ITS ABOUT HEAVEN.IT IS A SATAN DESTROYER SHOW.PRAISE YOU JESUS
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/understanding-the-times/player/the-wonder-of-heaven-336273.html 

JEWS FLOCK TO JERUSALEM FOR PASSOVER PICTURES
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166652#.UVWfyDd9kwo 



Christians flock to Jerusalem for Good Friday

Hundreds of pilgrims retrace Jesus’s final steps along Old City’s Via Dolorosa

By March 29, 2013, 2:29 pm 0-The Times of Israel

Church of the Holy Sepulchre (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Anton Croos, Wikimedia Commons)
Church of the Holy Sepulchre (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Anton Croos, Wikimedia Commons)




JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Christians streamed through the cobblestone alleyways of Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday, hoisting wooden crosses and chanting prayers to mark the crucifixion of Jesus.
Throngs of pilgrims walked a traditional Good Friday procession that retraces Jesus’ steps along the Via Dolorosa, Latin for the “Way of Suffering.” They followed his 14 stations, saying a prayer at each and ending at the ancient Holy Sepulchre church.Along the route, Franciscan friars in brown robes chanted prayers in Latin and explained the different stations to crowds through a megaphone. Leonard Mary, a priest from Irondale, Alabama, was dressed as Jesus wearing a crown of thorns. He was flanked by men posing as Roman soldiers and had fake blood dripping down his chest as he lugged a giant cross down the street.
“The most perfect love that was ever seen in the world was when Jesus died for us. He showed us the perfection of love,” said Mary.Good Friday events kicked off with a Mass earlier in the morning at the cavernous Holy Sepulchre, which was built on the place where tradition holds Jesus was crucified, briefly entombed and resurrected. Clergy dressed in colorful robes entered through the church’s large wooden doors as worshippers prayed in the church courtyard.Later Friday, a Mass was due in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, built atop the traditional site of Jesus’ birth. Christians believe Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and resurrected on Easter Sunday.Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations that observe the new, Gregorian calendar, mark Easter week this week. Orthodox Christians, who follow the old, Julian calendar, will mark Good Friday in May.Less than 2 percent of the population of Israel and the Palestinian territories is Christian, mostly split between Catholicism and Orthodox streams of Christianity. Christians in the West Bank wanting to attend services in Jerusalem must obtain permission from Israeli authorities.
Israel’s Tourism Ministry said it expects some 150,000 visitors in Israel during Easter week and the Jewish festival of Passover, which coincide this year.

03/28/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Pope Francis on how priests should be

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Pope Francis

In his homily for the Chrism mass Bergoglio spoke about priests as shepherds who go out of the centre to be in the midst of their flock

Andrea Tornielli vatican city
Just as changes and reforms that need to be made in the Church must be made exclusively “for the salvation of souls” – as the then Cardinal Bergoglio had said to cardinals before the Conclave – so priests should know that they are anointed “for the poor, prisoners and the sick, for those who are sorrowing and alone. The ointment is not intended just to make us fragrant, much less to be kept in a jar, for then it would become rancid … and the heart bitter.” These were the words Francis used to describe his vision of the ideal priest, in his first Chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Square.“A good priest can be recognized by the way his people are anointed. When our people are anointed with the oil of gladness, it is obvious: for example, when they leave Mass looking as if they have heard good news. Our people like to hear the Gospel preached with “unction”, they like it when the Gospel we preach touches their daily lives, when it runs down like the oil of Aaron to the edges of reality, when it brings light to moments of extreme darkness, to the “outskirts” where people of faith are most exposed to the onslaught of those who want to tear down their faith,” Francis said.“We need to “go out”, then, in order to experience our own anointing, - Francis said - its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the “outskirts” where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters. It is not in soul-searching or constant introspection that we encounter the Lord: self-help courses can be useful in life, but to live by going from one course to another, from one method to another, leads us to become pelagians and to minimize the power of grace, which comes alive and flourishes to the extent that we, in faith, go out and give ourselves and the Gospel to others, giving what little ointment we have to those who have nothing, nothing at all. A priest who seldom goes out of himself, who anoints little – I won’t say “not at all” because, thank God, our people take our oil from us anyway – misses out on the best of our people, on what can stir the depths of his priestly heart.”“Those who do not go out of themselves, instead of being mediators, - Pope Francis continued - gradually become intermediaries, managers. We know the difference: the intermediary, the manager, “has already received his reward”, and since he doesn’t put his own skin and his own heart on the line, he never hears a warm, heartfelt word of thanks. This is precisely the reason why some priests grow dissatisfied, become sad priests, lose heart and become in some sense collectors of antiques or novelties – instead of being shepherds living with “the smell of the sheep”, shepherds in the midst of their flock, fishers of men.”“True enough, the so-called crisis of priestly identity threatens us all and adds to the broader cultural crisis; but if we can resist its onslaught, we will be able to put out in the name of the Lord and cast our nets. It is not a bad thing that reality itself forces us to “put out into the deep”, where what we are by grace is clearly seen as pure grace, out into the deep of the contemporary world, where the only thing that counts is “unction” – not function – and the nets which overflow with fish are those cast solely in the name of the One in whom we have put our trust: Jesus.”These words paint the picture of a shepherd  who goes to look for the lost sheep in the outermost geographical and existential corners of our world. When he finds it, the first thing he tells it is that God loves and forgives it, if only it will admit that it is in need of his mercy.

03/27/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Friday 29 March 2013

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Francis presides over the Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum

Pope Francis presides over the celebration of the Lord’s Passion with the Liturgy of the Word, the Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion in St. Peter’s Basilica at 17:00 local time.Pope Francis will preside over the Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum at 21:15, at the end of which he will address faithful and give his Apostolic Benediction. After Benedict XVI’s visit to Lebanon, Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï was put in charge of choosing the texts for the Stations of the Cross procession at the Colosseum on Holy Friday. The texts for each of the traditional 14 Stations were prepared by a group of Lebanese young people under the Patriarch’s guidance.

03/28/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Saturday 30 March 2013

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This Holy Saturday, Pope Francis will celebrate the Easter Vigil in St. Peter's Basilica at 20.30

The Pope will bless the new fire in the atrium of teh Basilica. After the entrance procession with the Easter candle and the singing of the Exultet, John Paul II will preside at the Liturgy of the Word and the baptismal and Eucharistic liturgies, which he will concelebrate with cardinals.

High Alert as Passover Coincides with Arab ‘Land Day’

Police are on high alert in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria as Arabs prepare to mark Land Day.
By Maayana Miskin-First Publish: 3/29/2013, 9:19 AM-Israelnationalnews

Police at Damascus Gate
Police at Damascus Gate-Israel news photo: Flash 90
Police are on high alert in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria (Shomron) as Arabs prepare to mark Land Day. This year, it overlaps with Passover, leading to extra cause for concern.Land Day marks the anniversary of widespread Arab riots in 1976 over Israeli plans to expropriate unused land in the Galilee, some of which was Arab-owned. The day is often celebrated with violent riots.Hundreds of police officers have been stationed across the Old City and eastern Jerusalem due to concern that riots could break out after the Friday morning Muslim prayers at the Al Aqsa mosque. Police have also barred Muslim men under age 50 from the mosque for the day, following intelligence reports according to which younger men were planning a riot.Jerusalem Police are apparently not taking any risks regarding Friday prayers in wake of an incident three weeks ago in which Muslim rioters, for the first time, used firebombs against police officers on the Temple Mount.The Passover holiday means unique security considerations due both to the fact that the holiday means large, public civilian gatherings, and to the fact that Palestinian Authority terrorists have often chosen to attack on Jewish holidays.This year marked the eleventh anniversary of the Park Hotel massacre, in which terrorists targeted an Israeli Passover seder in Netanya, murdering 30 people.

Heat Wave for End of Passover

Temperatures to keep rising until Passover draws to a close.
By Maayana Miskin First Publish: 3/29/2013, 11:02 AM-Israelnationalnews

Hikers near Ein Gedi
Hikers near Ein Gedi-Israel news photo: Flash 90
Friday’s weather will be pleasant, with a slight rise in temperatures making the weather unseasonably warm, weather forecasters say.Temperatures are expected to continue to rise Saturday. The warm weather will be accompanied by strong winds from the north.According to the Weather Service, temperatures will rise noticeably over the weekend, reaching heat wave weather early next week. Humidity is expected to drop. Winds will continue.The warm weather will continue until midday Monday, the last day of the week-long Passover holiday. The heat wave is expected to break early on Monday afternoon with an influx of cold, humid air which will bring temperatures down dramatically, particularly along the coast.





LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).(IN TOTAL DURING THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION OR 4 BILLION DIE)(GET SAVED TODAY SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THREW THIS HELL ON EARTH)


ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)


REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)


WHAT HAPPENS IF KIM JONG UN ACTS ON HIS THREATS AGAINST THE USA
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2013/0329/North-Korea-What-happens-if-Kim-Jong-un-acts-on-his-threats

ITS BEEN PROPHISIED BY A PASTOR PAUL BEGLEY.KING JONG UN IS NO BOY CRYING WOLF.HE REALLY WILL TAKE ACTION.GOD REVEALED TO HIM.CHRISTIANS MUST PRAY THAT HIS KIM JONG UNS WEAPONS BREAK DOWN.

North Korea says enters "state of war" against South

By Jack Kim | Reuters – 3 hrs ago MAR 30,13
By Jack Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea, its latest bout of angry rhetoric directed at Seoul and Washington, but the South brushed off the statement as little more than tough talk.The North also threatened to shut down an industrial zone it operates jointly with the South near the heavily armed border between the two sides if Seoul continued to say the complex was being kept running for money.The two Koreas have been technically in a state of war for six decades under a truce that ended their 1950-53 conflict. Despite its threats, few people see any indication Pyongyang will risk a near-certain defeat by re-starting full-scale war."From this time on, the North-South relations will be entering the state of war and all issues raised between the North and the South will be handled accordingly," a statement carried by the North's official KCNA news agency said.KCNA said the statement was issued jointly by the North's government, ruling party and other organizations.There was no sign of unusual activity in the North's military to suggest an imminent aggression, a South Korean defense ministry official said.
The North has been threatening to attack the South and U.S. military bases almost on a daily basis since the beginning of March, when U.S. and South Korean militaries started routine drills that have been conducted for decades without incident.Many in the South have regarded the North's willingness to keep open the Kaesong industrial zone, located just a few miles (km) north of the border, as a sign that Pyongyang will not risk losing a lucrative source of foreign currency by mounting a real act of aggression.The Kaesong zone is a vital source of hard currency for the impoverished state and hundreds of South Korean workers and vehicles enter daily after crossing the armed border."If the puppet traitor group continues to mention the Kaesong industrial zone is being kept operating and damages our dignity, it will be mercilessly shut off and shut down," KCNA quoted an agency that operates Kaesong as saying in a statement.The threat to shut it down could sharply escalate tensions because it would suspend a symbolic joint project run by the rivals. It could also trap hundreds of South Korean workers and managers of the 123 firms that have factories there.The North has previously suspended operations at the factory zone at the height of political tensions with the South, only to let it resume operations later.The project has been kept running despite the North's move on Wednesday to cut off a military hotline used to process the hundreds of workers and vehicles that cross the Demilitarized Zone border."We have been exercising extreme restraint considering the plight of medium and small companies whose livelihood depends on the Kaesong industrial project as an immediate shutdown will drive them to bankruptcy and people jobless," KCNA quoted the agency as saying.The South's Unification Ministry, which handles political ties with the North, said earlier in the day that the Kaesong industrial park was operating as normal with workers and vehicles crossing the border both says."North Korea's statement today (on entering a state of war) ... is not a new threat but is the continuation of provocative threats," a ministry statement said.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Friday signed off on an order putting its missile units on standby to attack U.S. military bases in the South and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force.U.S. officials said the B-2 bombers were on a diplomatic sortie aimed at reassuring allies South Korea and Japan and were also aimed at trying to nudge Pyongyang back to dialogue, although there was no guarantee Kim would get the message as intended.The South Korean government brushed off the North's latest statement on entering a state of war, saying there was nothing fresh in it to cause greater alarm. South Koreans went about with daily lives as they have done through March under the North's constant threat of attack.(Additional reporting by Sung-won Shim and Jane Chung; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

Nuclear Weapon Effects

Nuclear detonations are the most devastating of the weapons of mass destruction. To make this point one need only recall the pictures from Hiroshima or the international furor over the accidental but enormous radiation release from the Chernobyl power plant. The contamination from Chernobyl was significantly larger than would have been expected from a nuclear detonation of about 20 kT at ground level, but was comparable in extent to what might result from a �small� nuclear war in which a dozen or so weapons of nominal yield were exploded at altitudes intended to maximize blast damage.A nuclear detonation creates a severe environment including blast, thermal pulse, neutrons, x- and gamma-rays, radiation, electromagnetic pulse (EMP), and ionization of the upper atmosphere. Depending upon the environment in which the nuclear de-vice is detonated, blast effects are manifested as ground shock, water shock, �blueout,� cratering, and large amounts of dust and radioactive fallout. All pose problems for the survival of friendly systems and can lead to the destruction or neutralization of hostile assets. The energy of a nuclear explosion is transferred to the surrounding medium in three distinct forms: blast; thermal radiation; and nuclear radiation. The distribution of energy among these three forms will depend on the yield of the weapon, the location of the burst, and the characteristics of the environment. For a low altitude atmospheric detonation of a moderate sized weapon in the kiloton range, the energy is distributed roughly as follows:
50% as blast; 35% as thermal radiation; made up of a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum, including infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light and some soft x-ray emitted at the time of the explosion; and 15% as nuclear radiation; including 5% as initial ionizing radiation consisting chiefly of neutrons and gamma rays emitted within the first minute after detonation, and 10% as residual nuclear radiation. Residual nuclear radiation is the hazard in fallout.
Considerable variation from this distribution will occur with changes in yield or location of the detonation. Because of the tremendous amounts of energy liberated per unit mass in a nuclear detonation, temperatures of several tens of million degrees centigrade develop in the immediate area of the detonation. This is in marked contrast to the few thousand degrees of a conventional explosion. At these very high temperatures the nonfissioned parts of the nuclear weapon are vaporized. The atoms do not release the energy as kinetic energy but release it in the form of large amounts of electromagnetic radiation. In an atmospheric detonation, this electromagnetic radiation, consisting chiefly of soft x-ray, is absorbed within a few meters of the point of detonation by the surrounding atmosphere, heating it to extremely high temperatures and forming a brilliantly hot sphere of air and gaseous weapon residues, the so-called fireball. Immediately upon formation, the fireball begins to grow rapidly and rise like a hot air balloon. Within a millisecond after detonation, the diameter of the fireball from a 1 megaton (Mt) air burst is 150 m. This increases to a maximum of 2200 m within 10 seconds, at which time the fireball is also rising at the rate of 100 m/sec. The initial rapid expansion of the fireball severely compresses the surrounding atmosphere, producing a powerful blast wave. As it expands toward its maximum diameter, the fireball cools, and after about a minute its temperature has decreased to such an extent that it no longer emits significant amounts of thermal radiation. The combination of the upward movement and the cooling of the fireball gives rise to the formation of the characteristic mushroom-shaped cloud. As the fireball cools, the vaporized materials in it condense to form a cloud of solid particles. Following an air burst, condensed droplets of water give it a typical white cloudlike appearance. In the case of a surface burst, this cloud will also contain large quantities of dirt and other debris which are vaporized when the fireball touches the earth's surface or are sucked up by the strong updrafts afterwards, giving the cloud a dirty brown appearance. The dirt and debris become contaminated with the radioisotopes generated by the explosion or activated by neutron radiation and fall to earth as fallout. The relative effects of blast, heat, and nuclear radiation will largely be determined by the altitude at which the weapon is detonated. Nuclear explosions are generally classified as air bursts, surface bursts, subsurface bursts, or high altitude bursts. Air Bursts. An air burst is an explosion in which a weapon is detonated in air at an altitude below 30 km but at sufficient height that the fireball does not contact the surface of the earth. After such a burst, blast may cause considerable damage and injury. The altitude of an air burst can be varied to obtain maximum blast effects, maximum thermal effects, desired radiation effects, or a balanced combination of these effects. Burns to exposed skin may be produced over many square kilometers and eye injuries over a still larger area. Initial nuclear radiation will be a significant hazard with smaller weapons, but the fallout hazard can be ignored as there is essentially no local fallout from an air burst. The fission products are generally dispersed over a large area of the globe unless there is local rainfall resulting in localized fallout. In the vicinity of ground zero, there may be a small area of neutron-induced activity which could be hazardous to troops required to pass through the area. Tactically, air bursts are the most likely to be used against ground forces.
Surface Burst. A surface burst is an explosion in which a weapon is detonated on or slightly above the surface of the earth so that the fireball actually touches the land or water surface. Under these conditions, the area affected by blast, thermal radiation, and initial nuclear radiation will be less extensive than for an air burst of similar yield, except in the region of ground zero where destruction is concentrated. In contrast with air bursts, local fallout can be a hazard over a much larger downwind area than that which is affected by blast and thermal radiation. Subsurface Burst. A subsurface burst is an explosion in which the point of the detonation is beneath the surface of land or water. Cratering will generally result from an underground burst, just as for a surface burst. If the burst does not penetrate the surface, the only other hazard will be from ground or water shock. If the burst is shallow enough to penetrate the surface, blast, thermal, and initial nuclear radiation effects will be present, but will be less than for a surface burst of comparable yield. Local fallout will be very heavy if penetration occurs. High Altitude Burst. A high altitude burst is one in which the weapon is exploded at such an altitude (above 30 km) that initial soft x-rays generated by the detonation dissipate energy as heat in a much larger volume of air molecules. There the fireball is much larger and expands much more rapidly. The ionizing radiation from the high altitude burst can travel for hundreds of miles before being absorbed. Significant ionization of the upper atmosphere (ionosphere) can occur. Severe disruption in communications can occur following high altitude bursts. They also lead to generation of an intense electromagnetic pulse (EMP) which can significantly degrade performance of or destroy sophisticated electronic equipment. There are no known biological effects of EMP; however, indirect effects may result from failure of critical medical equipment. Although some nuclear weapons effects (NWE) such as blast and cratering have analogs in the effects of conventional weapons, many NWE are unique to nuclear use. In addition, blast and other �common� weapons effects are likely to be much more powerful in the nuclear case than in the realm of conventional weapons. NWE are so severe that combinations of two or more simultaneously (as in a real event) may not add linearly, complicating the design and construction of physical simulators or the writing and validation of computer simulation codes.
Although thermal radiation, EMP, and ionizing radiation from a nuclear blast are all damage producing, at yields below about a megaton the blast and shock produced by a nuclear weapon are the predominant means of damaging a target. For some targets, such as underground bunkers and missile silos, blast and shock are virtually the only effective destructive mechanisms.The intensity of thermal radiation decreases only as the inverse square of the distance from a nuclear detonation, while blast, shock, and prompt ionizing radiation effects decrease more rapidly. Thus, high-yield weapons are primarily incendiary weapons, able to start fires and do other thermal damage at distances well beyond the radius at which they can topple buildings or overturn armored vehicles.Nuclear effects on electromagnetic signal propagation, which affects command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C 4 I), are of concern to countries expected to use nuclear weapons, particularly those which intend to explode a weapon at great altitudes or those which expect to have to defend against such a nuclear attack. C3I technology is primarily affected by high-altitude nuclear effects that could interrupt satellite-to-satellite communications, satellite-to-aircraft links, or satellite-to-ground links. Most nations will hope that signals from Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and ground-based differential GPS transmitters will be usable shortly after a nuclear explosion, as well as traditional communications channels which must be protected.
The electromagnetic pulse generated by the detonation of a single nuclear weapon at high altitudes can be a threat to military systems located as much as a thousand miles away. HEMP can disable communications systems and even power grids at enormous distances from the burst. This type of threat could be used by a third world country that has the capability to launch a rocket carrying a high-yield device (about 1 megaton or more) a few hundred kilometers into the upper atmosphere and a few thousand kilometers from its own territory (to avoid damaging its own systems).
http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/effects.htm

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