Comments for Jeffrey Lewis

Comment on More EMP Nonsense by Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:52:49 +0000

But I admire your emphasis on completeness.

Comment on More EMP Nonsense by Magpie

Magpie — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:08:04 +0000

Don’t need EMP to do that anyway…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003

Comment on More EMP Nonsense by RAJ47

RAJ47 — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:54:08 +0000

BTW, there is a similar HPD II simulator at Kirtland AFB next to the Trestle.
Of course, VF is wrong and you are right.

Comment on More EMP Nonsense by Not A Wonk

Not A Wonk — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:30:24 +0000

Actually, safety analyses of nuclear reactors propose a large airliner crashing into them because that is the largest insult to the structure that can be reasonably assumed. If it could be reasonable for a LNG Tanker Ship to fly thru the air and land on a nuclear reactor, that would be the accident scenario that they would model. The probability of the airliner being high jacked does not factor into the scenario.

Comment on More EMP Nonsense by Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:04:44 +0000

Yeah, it's been a long couple of weeks. I liked your article in the Bulletin, by the way.

Comment on More EMP Nonsense by Derrin Culp

Derrin Culp — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:47:09 +0000

Jeffrey, I think you should take a deep breath and have a beer before the next time you blog. I haven’t seen you this edgy since the last time you took on Keith Payne. http://lewis.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/5330/heads-i-win-tails-you-lose

Comment on More EMP Nonsense by Andrew Tubbiolo

Andrew Tubbiolo — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:00:47 +0000

Wait a minute. If the Norks REALLY wanted to hurt the US, and an EMP bomb could have effect. I suggest they detonate a EMP round above their own skies and knock out every CNC machine tool in Northern China and South Korea. It would wipe out all those American investments in China, and create an instant strategic shortage of plastic lawn furnature here at home. Not to mention the social crisis after the bare shelves of WalMart and the dollar stores really sets in. Chaos I say, chaos!

Comment on More EMP Nonsense by Gregory Matteson

Gregory Matteson — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:47:45 +0000

Re Pearl Harbor: Not to mention Navy command discounting the battle report of the USS Ward because the crew were ‘mere’ reservists.

Comment on More EMP Nonsense by Gregory Matteson

Gregory Matteson — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:33:53 +0000

The Pearl Harbor disaster was exaserbated by such things as senior officers who “don’t believe in RADAR”
As for kamikaze airliners; nuclear power plants in this country were being designed to withstand having a 707 crashed into them; fortunately never tested.
It has been likewise stated that the twin towers were designed to withstand a 707. Whether they would actually have survived that is unknowable. The actually aircraft were larger, crucially with much larger fuel loads.

Comment on More EMP Nonsense by Bradley Laing

Bradley Laing — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:22:13 +0000

—Is their an unconscious assumption that the Iranians live in caves, make stone tools, and hunt herds of bison, and thus threatening Iranians with EMP devices won’t work?

—Because, if they were advanced enough to make 1973 Datsuns, we would be threatening them with EMP devices?