EMP is a work of fiction only because to date the world has not experienced an EMP, electromagnetic pulse attack or a nuclear winter. However, it is just a matter of time before a group or a nation of radicals will use such a dreadful device in a terrorist attack with the same effect described in this book.
The scenario for this EMP story model after what is happening now, creating a world where such an attack could occur at any time. Selecting the State of Nevada as the venue makes the story more realistic by affiliating the characters with actual technological activities happening at the Nevada National Security Site and the Area 51 specialized laboratories.
EMP - Nuclear Winter takes the reader through the attack and realistically addresses logistics, security, survivor selection, social, cultural, education, and other issues required to prepare a society capable of rebuilding a nation devoid of the technology on which they once depended.
The EMP attack scenario described in this book depicts the real effects of an EMP attack. Both the United States and the USSR conducted EMP tests in 1962 that provided ample results for the world to realize the terrible consequences of the release of such a weapon on humanity.
An Atomic Energy Commission W49 thermonuclear warhead test at Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean affected the electric grid in Hawaii 900 miles away.
A USSR detonation that year produced a gamma ray EMP induced a current of 2,500 amps along with a 570-km stretch of overhead telephone line that blew the protective fuses and penetrated 90 cm into the ground. It overloaded a shallow buried lead and steel tape-protected 1,000-km long power cable between Aqmola and Almaty where it fired circuit breakers and set the Karaganda power plant on fire.
The fictional scenario in EMP describes a world situation where conjured defense appropriations in the wilderness of mirrors that is the federal budget process have crippled the military capabilities of the United States.
Years of partisan bickering have weakened the United States government and emboldened China and much of the world to challenge its former superpower status.
A previous administration set the stage for what is happening today by it agreeing to allow Iran to proceed with its nuclear processing that Iran claimed to be for peaceful purposes. Israel knows Iran is close to having a nuclear weapon and faces going it alone on a preemptive strike to protect itself from annihilation by Iran.
When the Syrian government launches an all-out offensive against the rebellion growing within its borders, it does so with considerable help from Iran.
Nearly four years later, Iran’s involvement in the Syrian civil war has only deepened. Though the group has not escaped the vicious conflict unscathed, it has emerged a more capable and deadly force — a fact that has not gone unnoticed by its longtime enemy, Israel.
China is dependent upon Iran and the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf for 60 percent of its oil and fears Israel no choice other than to destroy the oil producing capability of its enemy. China protects its source of petroleum by trading missiles tipped with thermonuclear warheads to Iran, knowing that Iran intends to use these missiles and warheads to destroy Israel in a preemptive strike.
The United States Defense Intelligence Agency knows that China is shipping nuclear-tipped missiles to the Middle East and covertly passes missile defense technology to Israel along with the means of applying it. Israel uses this technique for defense against Iranian-launched rockets by redirecting them back to Iran.
China fears the United States will intervene when Iran makes its move. It attempts to intimidate the United States by launching an intercontinental ballistic, ICBM, tipped with a thermonuclear warhead off the coast of Taiwan. It is programmed to detonate at China’s nuclear test site. China does not know that the United States has a new automated missile defense that redirects and incoming Chinese missiles back to Beijing. The American missile defense system does what it is supposed to do. It turns the missile around and sends it to the coordinates of China’s central command in Beijing.
The destruction of Beijing triggers a doomsday reaction that activates orbiting satellites to release a powerful EMP, electromagnetic pulses over the United States and other countries of interest or of a threat to China.
The EMP destroys electronic devices and the electric power grids over much of the world, denying sources of suitable water and food that within the year results in the death of 90% of the people on earth.
A frenzy of nuclear bomb exchanges occurs a few days after the EMP attack, releasing atomic fallout that creates a nuclear winter environment that worsens the hopes of survival for humans and animals alike.
This provides the scenario in this book, EmP. The remainder of the book is about what occurs at Jackass Flats, Nevada to a select group sheltered by the government in the abandoned Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository.
When the reader finishes reading EmP - Nuclear Winter, he or she will wonder why our advanced technological world of social networking is not talking about what will occur when the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, a radical religious group, or a rogue nation like North Korea or Iran launches an EMP attack. Even more frightening is no one is preparing the citizens of the world for the day when a radical terrorist cell delivers and detonates an EMP device on a freighter arriving in a major city. The feasibility of this occurring is not a matter of if; it is a matter of when.
No one talks about the consequences of such an attack because of it being so horrific. No one is preparing defenses for this occurrence, yet the costs of such a defense pale when compared to the long-lasting devastation to humanity because of such an attack. They should be.
Warning - you will find in this book that the aftermaths of an EMP attack extremely brutal.
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