Newt Gingrich: A Single Nuke Could Destroy America

Newt is right.

The Iranian's achieving the ability to launch their own satellites, along with a near certainty of their gaining nuclear weapons, poses an enormous threat not only to the Middle East, but to the world in general. As he points out, such a combination would allow Iran to perform first strike against America with very few missiles. They are known to be developing ship launched missiles, which would allow them to get within "point blank" range for a nuclear EMP attack. Such an attack would devastate the economies and way of life of not only the countries or regions attacked, but the entire global balance of power and trade would be disrupted.

"It is a blow we most likely would never recover from." Newt Gingrich

While that would not stop a US submarine borne counter attack, it would create enormous confusion and uncertainty as to who attacked, and how we should respond. An insane Islamic mullocracy in Iran might just think they could get away with crippling the US and not get vaporized by the submarine fleet. Add to that the belief by the Poison Dwarf that the Mahadi is coming soon to lead Iran and Islam into world dominance, and the West doesn't have much in the way of deterrence.

By the way, such an attack would certainly trigger global uprisings of Muslims in an unprecedented Jihad on the non-Muslim world.

Where will you be when the Jihad hits the street?

FROM NEWSMAX.COM:

Newt Gingrich: A Single Nuke Could Destroy America

Sunday, March 29, 2009 4:23 PM

By: Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen

There is a sword of Damocles over our heads. It is a threat that is real but has been all but ignored.

On February 3rd, Iran launched a “communications satellite” into orbit. At this very moment, North Korea is threatening to do the same. The ability to launch an alleged communications satellite belies a far more frightening truth. A rocket that can carry a satellite into orbit can also drop a nuclear warhead over any location on the planet in less than forty-five minutes.
Far too many timid or uninformed sources maintain that a single launch of a missile poses no true threat to the United States given our retaliatory power. A reality check is in order and must be discussed in response to such an absurd claim:

One small nuclear weapon, delivered by an ICBM can, in fact, destroy the United States by maximizing the effect of the resultant electromagnetic pulse upon detonation.

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is a by-product of detonating an atomic bomb above the Earth’s atmosphere. When a nuclear weapon is detonated in space, the gamma rays emitted trigger a massive electrical disturbance in the upper atmosphere. Moving at the speed of light, this overload will short out all electrical equipment, power grids and delicate electronics on the earth’s surface. In fact, it would take only one to three weapons exploding above the continental United States to wipe out our entire grid and transportation network. It might take years to recover from, if ever.
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