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cali

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37. still purveying this bullshit, eh?

Sun Sep 9, 2012, 05:32 PM

Sep 2012

This is ridiculous speculation. You've been posting that Israel will imminently attack Israel for years and years here. Hasn't happened yet.

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Israel Could Send Iran ‘Back To The Stone Age’ With Electromagnetic Bomb [View all] Purveyor Sep 2012 OP

Would that be considered a weapon of mass destruction? A war crime? Comrade Grumpy Sep 2012 #1

Indeed, it would. longship Sep 2012 #3

Nukes do generate an EMP pulse, but lots of other things do too bhikkhu Sep 2012 #5

What kook would want to start a nuclear war? longship Sep 2012 #15

A large EMP would fry everything Warpy Sep 2012 #31

The U.S. did test in the 1960s. Several bombs were exploded in near space... GreenStormCloud Sep 2012 #44

At high altitude no people would be directly killed, but lots of equipment destroyed. GreenStormCloud Sep 2012 #43

Does Israel have no regard for other human beings? nt nanabugg Sep 2012 #2

Cute euphemism for a neutron bomb; a nuclear weapon Xipe Totec Sep 2012 #4

Are all EMP devices nuclear in nature? GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #23

Not all Confusious Sep 2012 #32

Thanks! That would be one irritated city block! GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #34

So it's OK for Israel to use Nukes Progressive dog Sep 2012 #6

I laughed at that too Confusious Sep 2012 #35

Oh good grief. COULD! aquart Sep 2012 #7

Right. I'm guessing the Times of Israel isn't as anti-Semitic as you think they are. DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2012 #9

Actually, it and many of its readers would fall under a standard rubric of antisemitism. Scootaloo Sep 2012 #17

What you describe doesn't some like anti-semitism to me. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2012 #33

I love to read Science Fiction in the news paper nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #8

The EMP of the Starfish Prime nuclear test Bosonic Sep 2012 #10

Critical words, NUCLEAR TEST nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #19

That was 1962 - they can't do that sort of thing anymore bhikkhu Sep 2012 #27

This electromagnetic pulse, so I've read, is the reason the USSR stayed with tubes instead of going byeya Sep 2012 #11

I remember the old joke about the USSR proudly announcing it had created... Comrade Grumpy Sep 2012 #13

Tubes are more or less immune to EMP hifiguy Sep 2012 #16

Thanks for the post. It's reassuring to know that I remembered something correctly. byeya Sep 2012 #18

Do you mean the.. lexx21 Sep 2012 #24

That's the tube hifiguy Sep 2012 #36

I agree lexx21 Sep 2012 #40

Since the USA has 30 or more military bases on either side of Iran, wouldn't our byeya Sep 2012 #12

Nonlethal gamma radiation displays similar cytoplasmic rearrangements as 12(S)-HETE. GeorgeGist Sep 2012 #14

Iran could do the same in return... JackRiddler Sep 2012 #20

And here is where the science fiction comes in nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #22

"non-lethal gama rays"..... lexx21 Sep 2012 #21

A little research brings up significant problems with EMP bombs - bhikkhu Sep 2012 #25

Wasn't this a James Bond movie? Initech Sep 2012 #26

Or a TV series? Indpndnt Sep 2012 #28

Yuo, and that one makes zero sense as well nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #29

You would have to rack up the dead and dying in all the hospitals. Most life support devices 2on2u Sep 2012 #30

still purveying this bullshit, eh? cali Sep 2012 #37

And I will continue to post 'this ridiculous speculation' as long as this shit keeps coming out of Purveyor Sep 2012 #38

But this did not "come out of Israel" did it? hack89 Sep 2012 #42

Unbelievable Marrah_G Sep 2012 #39

i always wanted sort of an emp gun i could mount on my car dembotoz Sep 2012 #41