The Chicken Little Agenda!

For anyone losing sleep at night worried about the upcoming “American Hiroshima” promised by Al Qaeda, author Robert Williscroft has good news and bad news. First the good news: the chances of a terrorist detonating a successful suitcase nuke in one of America’s cities-or anywhere else for that matter-are so minute that they can, and should be, readily dismissed. “The detonation process of a nuclear bomb requires extraordinary accuracy,” explains the author of The Chicken Little Agenda, a powerful exploration of the mistruths and junk science informing much of today’s policy debates. “Any failure to meet [a nuclear weapon’s] precise design parameter will leave you with-literally-a pop and a fizzle.” Now for the bad news: any terrorist with an extra $400 and a modicum of technological savvy can wipe out all of our communications, computers, banking and just about anything else that relies on electricity, essentially crippling our economy and throwing us back, in a second, two hundred and fifty years, to a pre-industrial state. The culprit: a simple E-bomb, known in geek-speak as a Flux Compression Generator. For years, officials have warned about the consequences of a “nuclear pulse” from a modest nuke set off high in the atmosphere and its potential for instantaneously frying almost everything we rely on for transportation, communication, finance and defense. What no one tells you is that you don’t need an A-bomb to create a nuclear pulse with its attendant consequences. A simple Flux Compression Generator will do just fine. “A typical FCG (Flux Compression Generator) consists of an explosives-packed tube about 12 inches in diameter, loosely wrapped with a copper coil that is connected to a capacitor bank,” explains Williscroft in his blog, “The Dead Hand Journal.” Such a device produces “a ramping electromagnetic pulse with peak currents of tens of millions of amps, hundreds of time stronger than a bolt of lightning.” Put one in a small plane and you can stop a city. Put one in a high-flying passenger jet and you can bring several states, or even the whole country, to a crashing halt. “A properly constructed E-bomb can effectively fry everything electric and electronic within several miles of the point of detonation,” explains Williscroft, a retired nuclear submarine officer who served twenty-three years with the U.S. Navy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And the pulse is just the beginning. During the next fifteen minutes or so, “collapsing electrical systems and communications grids will distribute the pulse, and create their own smaller pulses, analogous to an earthquake aftershock. The entire affected electrical and communications system will tear itself apart ” self destruct.” That’s a lot of bang for $400 worth of material. Williscroft suggests that U.S. intelligence agencies look for unexplained power outages in remote locations as clues that Al Qaeda operatives are working out the bugs from their home-made E-bombs. Well, at least you don’t have to worry about getting nuked tonight by a suitcase bomb in a harbor. For more information about Robert Williscroft visit his blog at http://www.thedeadhand.com . More about Robert Williscroft: Robert Williscroft, PhD, is a retired nuclear submarine officer who served twenty-three years with the U.S. Navy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A life-long adventurer, Williscroft spent a year at the South Pole supervising National Science Foundation atmospheric research and made the first satellite-to-ground verifications of polar ozone thinning. He spent three years in the Arctic ice pack, a year at the geographic South Pole, and twenty-two months underwater. He has a BS in oceanography and meteorology and a master’s and doctorate in engineering from California Coast University. Williscroft’s articles appear in mensnewsdaily.com and in the popular on-line periodical Defense Watch Magazine. Book Information: The Chicken Little Agenda By Robert G. Williscroft Pelican Publishing Company ISBN: 9781589803527 $23.00 https://videos.whiteblox.com/gnb/secure/player.aspx?sid=34909