All posts tagged with EMP attack

(Natural News) As any good prepper already knows, the effects of an EMP would be absolutely devastating. An EMP is capable of wiping out the entire electric grid in the blink of an eye and would send the entire country into darkness. This is exactly why you should focus on acquiring items for your bugout bag […]

(Natural News) It’s important to understand two things about EMPs: that they have the ability to shut down America’s entire electrical grid and potentially result in significant loss of life, and that they can come from several different sources. As SHTFBlog.com points out, an electromagnetic pulse can be caused by a lightning strike, a meteor […]

(Natural News) The sun, which holds steady in the center of the solar system, is fascinating enough in of itself. But it also produces solar flares, which are just as fascinating. However, no matter how mesmerizing they may seem to be, they are known to have negative effects on all sorts of systems and equipment […]

(Natural News) For decades, North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs were the butt of jokes inside the Pentagon and throughout the Western defense structure, known more for their duds and misses than for their successes. But nobody in the U.S. Department of Defense or throughout NATO is laughing anymore, following a series of […]

(Natural News) There may be more to North Korea’s latest nuclear test than meets the eye if the country’s state-run media is to be believed, and it has huge implications for preppers. As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, an official North Korean newspaper published a column allegedly by one of the country’s scientists who […]

(Natural News) As the editor of Natural News, one thing I fully realize is that the window of opportunity to reliably use the internet to publish information is rapidly closing. The easy access to information that you enjoy today via the internet won’t always function the way it does now. Police state censorship, power grid […]

(Natural News) Earlier this year, former CIA Director James Woolsey and Dr. Peter Pry, head of a new congressional panel, were tasked with the job of studying the threat and aftereffects of an electromagnetic pulse event or attack on the power grid and infrastructure it supports throughout the United States. Their assessment was grim: They […]

(Natural News) In the age of the computer, we are constantly reminded of just how vulnerable our lives have become to cyber attack. In recent years cyber attacks have increased dramatically, having been launched scores of times against critical and non-critical infrastructure around the world. In addition, so-called “ransomware” attacks, like the recent one involving […]

(Natural News) An expert in nuclear weapons design and delivery and member of the Congressional EMP Commission says it’s very likely North Korea is developing technology that would enable it to launch a small-yield nuclear weapon from a satellite that is capable of knocking much of the U.S. power grid. Dr. Vincent P. Pry, in […]

(Natural News) The threat of an EMP attack from North Korea is “real and terrifying,” reports PJ Media. John Moore writes: An EMP disaster from a high-altitude blast seems like science fiction: There is a silent flash high in the sky, and everything using electricity just … stops. Cars stop, power goes out, the Internet […]