Taiwan Working On Top Secret Blackout Bomb
From Danger Room:
Taiwan is developing a bomb designed to wipe out China’s electrical system, according to the United Daily News. The newspaper claims that Taiwan — still dubbed a “renegade Province” by China — is working on a graphite bomb similar to one the U.S. reportedly used against Serbia in 1999. According to wire articles about the original report:
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Well detonating a small nuclear device about 40 miles in the air would do the same thing. called an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse). but that would totally fry a countries electrical system bringing it back to the stone age in the blink of an eye
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:52 amYeah, unfortunately Taiwan has to rely on non-nuclear means to defend themselves. At least, that’s all we know about publicly. It is possible that since they’ve had a civilian nuclear program for quite some time now that they’ve already built some nukes secretly, so who knows? They need all the help they can get in the face of such an aggressive enemy as Red China just about 100 miles away.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:06 pmI agree completely but 40 miles?
Maybe 40,000 feet, even that’s a bit high for maximum effect for am EMP.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:11 pmRadiation weakens in distance following an inverse square rule. The closer to the target better.