THE NUCLEAR REALITY – AND MAYBE IT'S TIME WE FACED IT – AT 10:33 A.M. ET:  President Trump will today unveil his new strategy for Iran.  Whether you will agree with it or not, at least he's addressing the failures of the nuclear deal, failures papered over by the Democratic Party and the Obama press. 

We are also facing a nuclear crisis with North Korea.  And here is a stark fact that should keep Washington up at night.  From the Washington Examiner: 

Congress was warned Thursday that North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. today with a nuclear EMP bomb that could indefinitely shut down the electric power grid and kill 90 percent of "all Americans" within a year.

At a House hearing, experts said that North Korea could easily employ the "doomsday scenario" to turn parts of the U.S. to ashes.

In calling on the Pentagon and President Trump to move quickly to protect the grid, the experts testified that the effect of an explosion of a high-altitude nuclear bomb delivered by a missile or satellite "could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans."

Two members of the former congressional EMP commission said the threat to the U.S. has never been higher, in part because of the current high level of saber rattling by both sides and North Korea's surprising display over the past six months of its ability to deliver on its threats.

"With the development of small nuclear arsenals and long-range missiles by new, radical U.S. adversaries, beginning with North Korea, the threat of a nuclear EMP attack against the U.S. becomes one of the few ways that such a country could inflict devastating damage to the United States. It is critical, therefore, that the U.S. national leadership address the EMP threat as a critical and existential issue, and give a high priority to assuring the leadership is engaged and the necessary steps are taken to protect the country from EMP," the experts told a House Homeland Security subcommittee.

COMMENT:  This discussion has been going on for at least a quarter of a century, yet it never seems to emerge from the background.  But it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

Some say that no enemy would dare to launch an EMP attack because the U.S. would destroy that country.  And I reply that nations don't always act rationally.  The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was irrational, but it was done.

I'd harden every major electrical and computer site in America, no matter what the cost.  But I'm afraid it will never be done.

October 13,  2017