KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
THIS KERRY IS COMPLETELY OFF THE DEEP END.BLAMING ISRAEL FOR STEALING PALESTINIAN LAND.WHEN ALL THE LAND IN ISRAEL IS ISRAELS.KERRY YOU BETTER START TELLING THEM ARAB MURDERERS TO GIVE UP HALF OF THE WEST BANK AND GAZA TO ISRAEL SO ISRAELIS CAN BUILD THEIR OWN HOUSES ON THEIR LAND.IF ISRAEL HAS TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM AND YOU CAN ALWAYS PRESSURE THEM.YOU BETTER START PRESSURING THEM ISRAEL KILLING PIGS BLOOD LOVING ARABS TO STOP ROCKET ATTACKS OR ISRAEL WILL BE ALLOWED TO USE THE ATOMIC BOMB ON THEM.THIS IS THE ONLY WAY MURDERERS WILL LISTEN OR THEY CAN GLADLY GO TO HELL WITH HITLER AND THE REST OF THEIR MAUDI LOVING-72 VIRGIN LIES BELIEVERS.
LIKE I SAID YESTERDAY BENJAMIN TO SARA.GET RID OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND GET THE EUROPEAN UNION TO LEAD THE PEACE PROCESS.AT LEAST THEY WILL PROTECT USE FROM THE ARAB MURDERERS FOR 3 1/2 OF THE 7 YEARS.BEFORE ISRAEL IS PERSECUTED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION WORLD DICTATOR.IT CAN'T BE ANY WORSE THEN THE WAY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS PERSECUTING YOU NOW ISRAEL.
AND BOTH THE ARAB MURDERERS AND OBAMAS ADMINISTRATION CLAIM TO BE YOUR FRIENDS AND PEACE PARTNERS.WE KNOW IN BOTH CASES THATS TOTAL HOGWASH.
Frustrated Kerry’s peace critique a heavy slap in Netanyahu’s face
A
patently bitter secretary of state asks why Israel keeps taking
Palestinian land, and why the Israeli public doesn’t seem to care about
it
On Wednesday, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu told his old friend John Kerry in Jerusalem that he
was concerned about the peace process, and asked the visiting US
secretary of state to “steer [the Palestinians] back to a place where we
could achieve the historical peace that we seek.” John Kerry quickly
responded by lauding both sides’ “good faith,” and said he was “very
confident” the negotiations would succeed.
But
on Thursday, he loosened the diplomatic straitjacket, and we all got a
much better look at what John Kerry really thinks about progress — and
blame — in the new peace effort he worked so strenuously to revive a
little over three months ago. He turned directly to the Israeli and
Palestinian peoples and showed them rather more of his true colors. To
the prime minister, it is safe to assume, they did not look particularly
blue and white.For the first time since he managed to restart
the talks in July, Kerry dropped his statesman-like public
impartiality, and clearly spoke from the heart — and what emerged were a
series of accusations that amounted to a forceful slap in the face for
Netanyahu. It was a rhetorical onslaught that the prime minister cannot
have expected and one he will not quickly forget.In an extremely unusual
joint interview
with Israel’s Channel 2 and the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, a
very frustrated Kerry basically blamed the Israeli government for
stealing the Palestinians’ land and the Israeli public for living in
bubble that prevents them from caring much about it. If that wasn’t
enough, he railed against the untenability of the Israel Defense Forces
staying “perpetually” in the West Bank. In warning that a violent
Palestinian leadership might supplant Mahmoud Abbas if there was not
sufficient progress at the peace table, he appeared to come perilously
close to empathizing with potential Palestinian aggression against
Israel.
“If we do not resolve the issues between
Palestinians and Israelis,” Kerry warned early in the interview, “if we
do not find a way to find peace, there will be an increasing isolation
of Israel [and an] increasing campaign of delegitimization of Israel.“If we do not resolve the question of
settlements,” he continued more dramatically, “and the question of who
lives where and how and what rights they have; if we don’t end the
presence of Israeli soldiers perpetually within the West Bank, then
there will be an increasing feeling that if we cannot get peace with a
leadership that is committed to non-violence, you may wind up with
leadership that is committed to violence.”He later elaborated, expressing apparently
growing dismay over continued Israeli settlement expansion: “How, if you
say you’re working for peace and you want peace, and a Palestine that
is a whole Palestine that belongs to the people who live there, how can
you say we’re planning to build in a place that will eventually be
Palestine? So it sends a message that perhaps you’re not really
serious.” That was a critique that will have resonated widely among
those many Israelis, and critics from outside, who have long argued that
Israel should limit any settlement building to areas it envisages
seeking to retain in a permanent accord.Kerry seemed to place the blame for the
failure to make rapid and major progress in negotiations overwhelmingly
on Israel, with no acknowledgement — in his statements as broadcast
Thursday — of two intifadas, relentless anti-Israel incitement in the
Palestinian territories, the Hamas takeover of Gaza and the constant
rocket fire from the Strip. (It is important to note that Channel 2
aired only part of the full interview on Thursday. More is set to air
Friday evening.)In lamenting the IDF’s presence in the West
Bank, Kerry positioned himself directly opposite Netanyahu, for whom an
ongoing Israeli security presence in the Jordan Valley is a stated
crucial condition for an agreement. Perhaps more surprisingly, he showed
no evident concern over the danger of a Hamas takeover in the West Bank
were the IDF to withdraw, disregarding a widely held concern — borne of
the rapid ease with which Hamas swept Abbas’s forces aside in Gaza in
2007 — that the official Palestinian Authority forces alone would not be
able to hold sway.His comments, which indicated an assessment
that Israelis are unrealistic about where the region is heading, seemed
particularly bitter. “The alternative to getting back to the talks is
the potential of chaos. I mean, does Israel want a third intifada?”
Kerry asked rhetorically, before lashing out at ordinary Israelis. “I
know there are people who have grown used to this,” he said referring to
the current relatively peaceful stalemate. “And particularly in
Israel. Israel says, ‘Oh we feel safe today. We have the wall, we’re not
in a day-to-day conflict, we’re doing pretty well economically.’“Well, I’ve got news for you,” he said,
apparently addressing the Israeli public. “Today’s status quo will not
be tomorrow’s or next year’s. Because if we don’t resolve this issue,
the Arab world, the Palestinians, neighbors, others, are going to begin
again to push in a different way.”That line of thinking reflects much
international conventional wisdom on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict —
the assumption that Israel could attain peace with the Palestinians if
only it wanted to, but that it just doesn’t want to enough. Many
Israelis, Netanyahu most certainly among them, would counter that Israel
cannot impose terms on a Palestinian leadership that, among numerous
other problematic negotiating positions, still demands a “right of
return” that would constitute suicide for the Jewish state. Many
Israelis, their prime minister among them, too, would note that Israel
is only too aware of how easily the relative calm could deteriorate, and
thus are wary of relinquishing territory to a Palestinian leadership
that, relatively moderate though it may be, might not be in a position
to retain power and honor any accord amid sweeping regional instability.For Netanyahu, watching Kerry’s from-the-heart
interview must have topped what was already a pretty lousy day. In
Geneva, the six world powers were inching toward a deal with the
Iranians that the prime minister fears would leave Tehran with an
enrichment capability even as the sanctions are eased — something
Netanyahu
considers a “historic error.”Kerry weighed in on that, too, in the
interview. Ultimately, if Iran doesn’t “meet the standards of the
international community,” said the secretary unhappily, “there may be no
option but the military option.” But, he quickly insisted, “we hope to
avoid that.”
Just the sort of message Netanyahu has been urging the US
not to deliver to Tehran.
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
PSALMS 79:1-13(GOD GIVES 7 TIMES DESTRUCTION TO WORLD NATIONS FOR COMING AGAINST JERUSALEM)
1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance;(JERUSALEM) thy holy temple have they defiled;(AD 70) they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
7 For they have devoured Jacob,(ISRAEL) and laid waste his dwelling place.
8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold (7 TIMES THE DESTRUCTION) into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.(BY DESTROYING JERUSALEM)
13 So we thy people (ISRAELIS) and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever:(KING JESUS) we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.(FOREVER ON EARTH)
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(PLANES) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)
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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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)
PSALMS 137:5-6
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-4 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished;(RAPED) and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
LUKE 1:31-32
32 He (JESUS) shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:(IN JERUSALEM)
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob (ISRAEL) for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.(THATS RULING FOREVER FROM JERUSALEM JESUS DOES)
ISAIAH 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:(JESUS 1ST COMING) and the government shall be upon his shoulder:(JESUS 2ND COMING AS RULING KING FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION) and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his (JESUS) government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David,( IN JERUSALEM) and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Abbas proposed Jerusalem united under supreme council, adviser says
Nimer Hammad tells Palestinian radio that PA chief agreed to joint municipality after Israeli withdrawal from East Jerusalem
Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas has proposed to leave Jerusalem united in an
administrative sense following an Israeli withdrawal from its eastern
section, a senior adviser to Abbas said on Wednesday.
Speaking
to official Palestinian radio, Nimer Hammad said that the president’s
recent proposal to make East Jerusalem the Palestinian capital and west
Jerusalem the Israeli capital was received with “great international
support,” while Israel continues to insist that Jerusalem remains united
under its sovereignty.“On the municipal level Jerusalem will remain
united,” Hammad said. “A municipal council will be established for East
Jerusalem, another for west Jerusalem, and a supreme council above
both.”
Jerusalem
remains one of the main points of contention between Israel and the
Palestinians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly stated
that Jerusalem will remain undivided under Israeli sovereignty in any
final status agreement. Finance Minister Yair Lapid told Israeli Radio
on Tuesday that Jerusalem is not being discussed in the current
negotiations and will not be divided.“If the Palestinians want a state they must
realize that it comes at a price and that they will not get everything
they wish for,” Lapid said.But Hammad, Abbas’s adviser, said that an Israeli refusal to withdraw from East Jerusalem would mean an end to peace talks.“Any agreement that does not include withdrawal from East Jerusalem means that there will be no peace agreement,” he said.
At the Camp
David peace summit held in July 2000, prime minister Ehud Barak insisted
on maintaining Israeli sovereignty over the entire Old City, while
allowing Palestinians to administer the Christian and Muslim Quarters as
well as the Temple Mount. According to Barak’s plan, Israel would also
maintain Palestinian neighborhoods adjacent to west Jerusalem. Abbas, the
chief Palestinian negotiator at the time, insisted on full Palestinian
sovereignty over the Old City, including the Jewish Quarter and Western
Wall, but supported “an open city and cooperation on municipal services.”
On September 16, 2008, prime minister Ehud
Olmert went further, proposing to Abbas that Israel relinquish
sovereignty over the Temple Mount and the Holy Basin to a joint
non-sovereign committee comprising Israel, the Palestinians, the US,
Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.“I’m still waiting for his phone call,” Olmert said in May.
Leftists Unite Against Nationalist Jerusalem City Councillor
Radical organizations appear to be joining in call to remove Jerusalem council member Aryeh King from Mayor Barkat's coalition.-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 11/7/2013, 9:01 PM-Israelnationalnews
Aryeh King-PR photo
Several leftist groups are apparently joining together in a call to
remove religious-Zionist Aryeh King, a newly elected Jerusalem council
member, from re-elected Mayor Nir Barkat's coalition which he
joined last Friday.
One of the groups is Tag Meir (Bright Tag), an organization backed by the leftist New Israel Fund. Their
Facebook page
on Monday displayed a poster calling on Barkat to leave King out of the
coalition, with the words "fighting racism" written provocatively in
large letters.An opinion article Thursday on
Channel 2's website called
for organizing social and political efforts aimed
at removing "representatives of the political stream that hates" from
positions of influence, listing King as one of its targets.Chairperson of the radical left Meretz party in
Jerusalem, Pepe Allalo, also chimed in on Tuesday, saying that he would
be willing to sit in the coalition with anyone, except King, whom he
labels "out of the consensus."Allalo criticized Barkat for giving
city council
posts to hareidi-religious and religious-Zionist council members.
Meretz and two other leftist groups have been left out of Barkat's
coalition.Meanwhile, King, whose "United Jerusalem" list won two seats in the recent elections, pledged on his Facebook page
Wednesday night to use his position as Deputy Chairperson of the
Emergency and Security Committee to ensure Jerusalem residents' safety.
He writes that the first mission he's given himself in the 2014 budget year is to have
security cameras and
security lighting
placed in the area around Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, as well as
in the general "seam" area between predominantly Jewish and
predominantly Arab neighborhoods.That area, which surrounds the campus, has seen a spike in Arab crime including fire bomb attacks.
Nana reported Wednesday that the situation has led the IDF to forbid soldiers from entering or exiting its Mount Scopus base
except in armed convoys.Furthermore, King's presence on the Regional Planning and Building
Committee is seen as a very good sign for the recently reported
increase in enforcement of the building law against illegal Arab construction.The united effort against King comes among similar attempts of attacking religious-Zionist political figures into silence.Former MK Michael Ben-Ari, who recently took a
teaching position at Ariel University, appears to be the victim of an
organized campaign to have him removed from the university.The campaign against Ben-Ari has produced several articles in the
leftist media referencing "worried responses" from "citizens" who are
actually well-known leftist activists.
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)
IN REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV 17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)
COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AMERICA)
REVELATION 18:3-6,19-21
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,(U.S.A) and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,(U.S.A) and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,(AMERICA) my people,(CHRISTIANS,JEWS) that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her (AMERICA-NEW YORK) even as she rewarded you,(WITH FALSE FLAG TERRORISM) and double unto her double according to her works:(DOUBLE-EMP 1ST,THEN RUSSIA NUKE ATTACKS U.S.A) in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.(PROBABLY A RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACK WILL SET THE WHOLE SITUATION UP AS RUSSIA HACKS THE USA ARMY COMPUTERS.THEN THE EMP,THEN THE NUKE ATTACK)
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Op-Ed: EMP Blackout Could Be Closer than You Think
Published: Thursday, November 07, 2013 6:44 PM-Israelnationalnews
North Korea is prepared, probable target the USA. Iran is not far behind and has already told the world its intentions.
Ambassador R. James Woolsey and Dr. Peter V. Pry
(
For photo of Dr. Pry, click opeds in the menu on the top of the main page.)
Four
days before Halloween, on Sunday morning, October 27, 2013, terrorists
in Mexico's Michoacan state blacked out the electric grid, leaving some
420,000 powerless and thirteen dead. That same Sunday night,
National Geographic aired
the docudrama American Blackout. This fictionalized account of a cyber
attack on the electric grid depicts some of the horrific consequences
of a nationwide blackout in the USA lasting 10 days:People get
trapped in elevators and become virtual prisoners in their high-rise
apartment buildings. Gasoline is rationed to the military and
hospitals, so the average American has no transportation--except for his
legs. Food and water become so scarce that there is a life and death
struggle over a can of peaches. Before day 10 of the blackout, when the
lights come back on, society starts breaking down into anarchy as gangs
and vigilante groups run wild.
National Geographic is to be applauded for
American Blackout which
is essentially a training film to educate the American people about the
very real threat posed to their lives by a cyber attack on the electric
grid. If there is any fault or unrealism in the docudrama, it is that
the blackout lasts only 10 days, and recovery is achieved so quickly.While Mother Nature can also be a source of EMP disasters, this article deals with the
possible threats posed by man. In real life, terrorists or rogue states would probably not limit their attack on the nation's electric grid to
computer viruses
or hacking, as implied in the docudrama. They would also use other
more destructive means--that could cause a protracted national blackout
lasting months or years.
Nuclear EMP--The Ultimate Cyber Threat
Electromagnetic
Pulse (EMP) is a dimension of the cyber threat that is not usually
considered a cyber threat in Western doctrine, but is in the playbooks
for an Information Warfare Operation of Russia, China, North Korea, and
Iran. These potential adversaries in their military doctrines include
as part of cyber warfare a wide spectrum of operations beyond computer viruses, including sabotage and kinetic attacks, up to and including nuclear EMP attack.It
is vitally important that we understand that a nuclear EMP attack is
part of cyber and information warfare operations as conceived by our
potential adversaries. Our cyber doctrine must be designed to deter and
defeat the cyber doctrines of our potential adversaries by anticipating
how they plan to attack us--but our doctrine currently does not.Our
cyber and information warfare doctrines are dangerously blind to the
likelihood that a potential adversary making an all-out information
warfare campaign designed to cripple the U.S. electric grid and other
critical infrastructures would include an EMP attack.
The
assessment that nuclear EMP attack is included in the cyber and
information warfare doctrine of potential adversaries, and the effects
of an EMP attack described here, are based on the work of the
Congressional EMP Commission that analyzed this threat for nearly a
decade (2001-2008). The Congressional Strategic Posture Commission and
several other major U.S. Government studies independently arrived at
similar conclusions, and represent collectively a scientific and
strategic consensus that nuclear EMP attack upon the United States is an
existential threat.
Nuclear EMP Attack
A
nuclear weapon detonated at high-altitude, above 30 kilometers, will
generate an electromagnetic pulse that can be likened to a
super-energetic radio wave, more powerful than lightning, that can
destroy and disrupt
electronics across a broad geographic area, from the line of sight from the high-altitude detonation to the horizon.For
example, a nuclear weapon detonated at an altitude of 30 kilometers
would project an EMP field with a radius on the ground of about 600
kilometers, that could cover all the New England States, New York and
Pennsylvania, damaging electronics across this entire region, including electronics
on aircraft flying across the region at the time of the EMP attack.
The EMP attack would blackout at least the regional electric grid, and
probably the entire Eastern Grid that generates 70 percent of U.S.
electricity, for a protracted period of weeks, months, possibly years.The
blackout and EMP damage beyond the electric grid in other systems would
collapse all the other critical infrastructures--communications,
transportation,
banking and finance, food and water--that sustain modern civilization and the lives of millions.Such
an EMP attack, a nuclear detonation over the U.S. East Coast at an
altitude of 30 kilometers, could be achieved by lofting the warhead with
a meteorological balloon.A more ambitious EMP attack could use a
freighter to launch a medium-range missile from the Gulf of Mexico, to
detonate a nuclear warhead over the geographic center of the United
States at an altitude of 400-500 kilometers. The EMP field would extend
to a radius of at least 2,200 kilometers on the ground, covering all
of the contiguous 48 United States, causing a nationwide blackout and
collapse of the critical infrastructures everywhere.All of this would result from the high-altitude detonation of a single nuclear missile.The
Congressional EMP Commission warned that Iran appears to have practiced
exactly this scenario. Iran has demonstrated the capability to launch a
ballistic missile from a vessel at sea. Iran has also several times
practiced and demonstrated the capability to detonate a warhead on its
medium-range Shahab III ballistic missile at the high-altitudes
necessary for an EMP attack on the entire United States. The Shahab III
is a mobile missile, a characteristic that makes it more suitable for
launching from the hold of a freighter.Launching an EMP attack
from a ship off the U.S. coast could enable the aggressor to remain
anonymous and unidentified, and so escape U.S. retaliation.
EMP In Cyber Warfare
The
Congressional EMP Commission warned that Iran in military doctrinal
writings explicitly describes making a nuclear EMP attack to eliminate
the United States as an actor on the world stage as part of an
Information Warfare Operation. For example, various Iranian doctrinal
writings on information and cyber warfare make the following assertions:"Nuclear
weapons...can be used to determine the outcome of a war...without
inflicting serious human damage [by neutralizing] strategic and
information networks."
"Terrorist information warfare
[includes]...using the technology of directed energy weapons (DEW) or
electromagnetic pulse (EMP).""...today when you disable a
country's military high command through disruption of communications you
will, in effect, disrupt all the affairs of that country....If the
world's industrial countries fail to devise effective ways to defend
themselves against dangerous
electronic assaults, then they will disintegrate within a few years."China's
premier military textbook on information warfare, written by China's
foremost expert on cyber and information warfare doctrine, makes
unmistakably clear that China's version of an all-out Information
Warfare Operation includes both computer viruses and nuclear EMP
attack. According to People's Liberation Army textbook World War, the
Third World War--Total Information Warfare, written by Shen Weiguang,
"Therefore, China should focus on measures to counter computer viruses, nuclear electromagnetic pulse...and quickly achieve breakthroughs in those technologies...":With
their massive destructiveness, long-range nuclear weapons have combined
with highly sophisticated information technology and information
warfare under nuclear deterrence....Information war and traditional war
have one thing in common, namely that the country which possesses the
critical weapons such as atomic bombs will have "first strike" and
"second strike retaliation" capabilities ....As soon as its computer
networks come under attack and are destroyed, the country will slip into
a state of paralysis and the lives of its people will ground to a halt.
Therefore, China should focus on measures to counter computer viruses,
nuclear electromagnetic pulse...and quickly achieve breakthroughs in
those technologies in order to equip China without delay with equivalent
deterrence that will enable it to stand up to the military powers in
the information age and neutralize and check the deterrence of Western
powers, including the United States.
Surprise EMP Attack
North
Korea appears to be attempting to implement the information warfare
doctrine described above by developing a long range missile capable of
making a catastrophic nuclear EMP attack on the United States. In
December 2012, North Korea demonstrated the capability to launch a
satellite on a polar orbit circling the Earth at an altitude of 500
kilometers.An altitude of 500 kilometers would be ideal for
making an EMP attack that places the field over the entire contiguous 48
United States, using an inaccurate satellite warhead for delivery,
likely to miss its horizontal aimpoint over the geographic center of the
U.S. by tens of kilometers.
North Korea appears to have borrowed
from the Russians their idea for using a so-called Space Launch Vehicle
to make a stealthy nuclear attack on the United States. During the Cold
War, Moscow developed a secret weapon called a Fractional Orbital
Bombardment System (FOBS) that looked like a Space Launch Vehicle, but
was designed to launch a nuclear warhead southward, away from the United
States initially, but deliver the warhead like a satellite on a south
polar orbit, so the nuclear attack comes at the U.S. from the south.The
United States has no Ballistic Missile Early Warning (BMEW) radars or
missile interceptors facing south. We might not even see the attack
coming.Miroslav Gyurosi in The Soviet Fractional Orbital Bombardment System describes Moscow's development of the FOBS:The
Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) as it was known in the
West, was a Soviet innovation intended to exploit the limitations of
U.S. BMEW radar coverage. The idea behind FOBS was that a large
thermonuclear warhead would be inserted into a steeply inclined low
altitude polar orbit, such that it would approach CONUS from any
direction, but primarily from the southern hemisphere, and following a
programmed braking maneuver, re-enter from a direction which was not
covered by BMEW radars."The first warning the U.S. would have of such a strike in progress would be the EMP...," writes Gyurosi.The
trajectory of North Korea's satellite launch of December 12, 2012
looked very much like a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System for EMP
attack. The missile launched southward, away from the United States,
sent the satellite over the south polar region, approaching the U.S.
from the south, at the optimum altitude for EMP attack--although the
test trajectory deliberately avoided flying over the United States
initially.In subsequent orbits the North Korean satellite did overfly the central U.S. at the optimum location for an EMP attack.
Super-EMP Attack
North
Korea appears to have borrowed from Russia more than the FOBS. In
2004, a delegation of Russian generals met with the Congressional EMP
Commission to warn that design information for a Super-EMP nuclear
warhead had leaked from Russia to North Korea, and that North Korea
might be able to develop such a weapon "in a few years."A few
years later, in 2006, North Korea conducted its first nuclear test, of a
device having a very low yield, about 3 kilotons. All three North
Korean nuclear tests have had similarly low yields. A Super-EMP warhead
would have a low-yield, like the North Korean device, because it is not
designed to create a big explosion, but to produce gamma rays, that
generate the EMP effect.According to several press reports, South
Korean military intelligence concluded independently of the EMP
Commission that Russian scientists are in North Korea helping develop a
Super-EMP nuclear warhead. In 2012, a military commentator for the
People's Republic of China stated that North Korea has Super-EMP nuclear
warheads.One design of a Super-EMP warhead would be a modified
neutron bomb, more accurately an Enhanced Radiation Warhead (ERW)
because it produces not only large amounts of neutrons but large amounts
of gamma rays, that cause the EMP effect. One U.S. ERW warhead (the
W-82) weighed less than 50 kilograms. North Korea's so-called Space
Launch Vehicle, which orbited a satellite weighing 100 kilograms, could
deliver such a warhead against the U.S. mainland--or against any nation
on Earth.Iran has not yet tested a nuclear weapon, but may
already have a FOBS delivery capability, as it has successfully launched
several satellites on polar orbits, assisted by North Korean missile
technology and North Korean technicians.Iranian scientists were present at all three North Korean nuclear tests, according to press reports.
Defending America and the World
What is to be done about the Cyber and EMP threats? There is no excuse for the United States to be vulnerable to EMP or to the worst case cyber scenarios as depicted in
American Blackout.
The U.S. Department of Defense has understood for 50 years how to
protect military systems from EMP. Private vendors specializing in EMP
protection are standing by with faraday cages, surge arrestors, blocking
devices and other technology, ready to protect the national electric
grid.Technically, it is important to understand that surge
arrestors and other hardware designed to protect against EMP can also
protect against the worst-case cyber scenarios that, for example,
envision computer viruses collapsing the national power grid. For
example, surge arrestors that protect Extra High Voltage transformers
from EMP can also protect transformers from damaging electrical surges
caused by a computer virus that manipulates the grid Supervisory Control
And Data Acquisition Systems (SCADAS).Unfortunately, the
electric power industry so far shows no inclination to invest in the
technologies necessary to protect the national electric grid. The
congressional EMP Commission estimates that robust protection of the
national electric grid could be achieved for a one-time investment of $2
billion--which is what the U.S. gives every year in foreign aid to
Pakistan. The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
estimates that EMP protection of the national grid would increase the
electric bill of the average rate payer by 20 cents annually.Administratively,
a coherent and effective answer will not likely arise from
uncoordinated decisions made independently by the thousands of
individual electric utilities and industries at risk. Because cyber
preparedness should encompass EMP preparedness--and since EMP is an
existential threat--it is imperative that Government play a supervisory
and coordinating role to achieve protection against these threats
swiftly:--The President should sign the Executive Order provided
to the White House by the Congressional EMP Commission directing that
the national electric grid shall be protected against EMP;--The
Congress should pass the SHIELD Act, which has been stalled before the
House Energy and Commerce Committee for three years. SHIELD empowers
the U.S. FERC with legal and financial authorities to protect the
national grid from EMP;--States should not wait for Washington,
but should immediately launch their own legislative initiatives, as done
already by the State of Maine, to protect that portion of the electric
grid within their states. States can "island" their grids, which will
in no way impede their ability to receive or export electric power from
or to other states, and thereby protect their people from an EMP
catastrophe.--Industry should start manufacturing Extra-High
Voltage (EHV) transformers, SCADAS, and other critical technologies
hardened against EMP. Defense Department experience with hardening
military systems has shown that, when systems are built with EMP
protection as part of the original design, it only adds 1-3 percent to
manufacturing cost. As old EHV transformers are retired and other
systems are replaced with new systems designed EMP hard, not only the
United States, but the entire Free World would eventually become
protected from an EMP catastrophe.The Unfree World, Russia and
China, have already hardened their grids against EMP. Israel may have
done the same - and if it has not, there is no time to be lost.
