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The terror next time--nukes

Frank Gaffney:

Statements out of North Korea and Iran last week confront the United States and other freedom-loving nations with a frightening prospect: Two of the world's most dangerous regimes are determined to wield nuclear weapons.
North Korea's claim to have "nukes" followed an Iranian mullahocracy announcement nothing will prevent its achieving nuclear goals. Should we worry? The short answer: Absolutely.
After all, the state policy of these two governments is hatred of America. Nuclear weapons in the hands of megalomanical tyrannies animated by this hatred and armed with ballistic missiles poses a unique " and intolerable " threat.
The danger is not simply the prospect one or more rogue states' nuclear weapons could be used to destroy an American city " or perhaps an allied capital in the Middle East or Europe. Such an attack could be conducted by other means, with more prosaic means of delivery such as trucks, ships or aircraft.
A blue-ribbon, congressionally mandated commission recently described an altogether different sort of nuclear attack, one made possible by the detonation high above the United States of a ballistic missile-delivered weapon. The panel was charged with "assessing the threat to the United States from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack."
It concluded the EMP effects of such an attack at 40 to 400 miles above this country could so severely disrupt, both directly and indirectly, electronics and electrical systems as to create a "damage level ... sufficient to be catastrophic to the nation." Worse, the commission concluded "our current vulnerability invites attack."