By
Lowell Ponte
The latest North Korean blast was, by one estimate, up to
10 times bigger than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Worse, this
weapon may have been not only an atomic fission device but also a
hydrogen-fusion explosive, an H-bomb small enough to be carried by an
intercontinental ballistic missile. A nuclear blast would emit an
electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that could fry our computer chips, blind military
offensive and defensive systems, erase our banking records and economy, and
return us to being a near-Stone Age country in a heartbeat. [more...]
