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August 15, 2017—Hill Action Items!

by Henry F. Cooper on August 15, 2017 in EMP, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, North Korea, The Hill

The past couple of weeks, I joined several other contributors to The Hill, which delivers the daily news focused on the interest of Capitol Hill, to discuss the implications of North Korea entering the ranks of deliverable nuclear weapons by ballistic missiles, particularly intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that can reach cities in the Continental United States. If you visit congressional offices as well as many other offices around Washington, you will find this daily newspaper on their coffee tables. Given several recent The Hill articles, there’s no excuse for our Senators and Representatives not to understand the threat that is here now. Read Full Story

August 8, 2017—Who Deserves Dunce Hats?

by Henry F. Cooper on August 7, 2017 in Dunce Hats, EMP, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Kelly, National Academy of Science

Critical national infrastructure protection “will require public-private cooperation and partnerships – that, in fact, the electric industry must in the future end their efforts to avoid, misrepresent, dismiss, and minimize EMP and its potential existential national consequences, and play a large role in EMP protection, as must several Departments of the government that have to date also avoided addressing EMP intelligently and effectively, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy, and begin drawing on the knowledge and experience held within the Department of Defense and the EMP Commission.”… Dr. William R. Graham, Chairman of the EMP Commission Read Full Story

August 1, 2017—A New Day?

by Henry F. Cooper on July 31, 2017 in EMP Commission, FERC, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Kelly, NERC, Trump

Yesterday, Retired Marine General and now former Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly was sworn in as the White House Chief of Staff, hopefully to demonstrate his well-deserved reputation of bringing order out of chaos to help greater success for President Trump’s agenda. Among his many agenda items, we hope they will address the government’s dysfunctional efforts to deal with the existential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threat now confronting the nation. Read Full Story

July 25, 2017—No Way to Provide for the Common Defense!

by Henry F. Cooper on July 24, 2017 in EMP Commission, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Read Full Story

July 18, 2017—Micro-satellites for Defense … Who’ll Be First?

by Henry F. Cooper on July 17, 2017 in Brilliant Pebbles, Clementine, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Space Based Interceptors

“An imaging satellite and 72 micro-satellites were launched into orbit Friday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency Roscosmos and research centre Glavcosmos announced. The Soyuz 2-1A rocket successfully lifted off at 0643 GMT with the satellite payload, Roscosmos said in a statement.” ~Agence France Presse, July 14, 2017 Read Full Story

July 11, 2017—So … What’s New, Pussycat?

by Henry F. Cooper on July 10, 2017 in EMP, FOBS, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Iran, North Korea

“Certainly, we do not want for things to get to a military conflict . . .” but if North Korean leaders “elevate the threat of their weapons program to a level that we believe requires action, that option [a military response] is on the table.” ~Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Reuters, March 17, 2017 Read Full Story

July 5, 2017—Kim’s Celebration on our Fourth!

by Henry F. Cooper on July 5, 2017 in EMP, High Frontier, Iran, North Korea

Conventional wisdom has held that it will be years before North Korea can threaten the United States with a nuclear attack. That judgement is quite wrong as illustrated in yesterday’s early morning hours when North Korea conducted its 13th ballistic missile test this year — this time on a lofted trajectory that, if straightened out, some experts claim could reach Alaska. Actually the threat is even much greater and more eminent than that. Read Full Story

July 4, 2017—Happy Independence Day!

by Henry F. Cooper on July 3, 2017 in High Frontier, Independence Day, July Fourth, Missile Defense, Ronald Reagan

Today, we celebrate the founding of America on July 4, 1776—Independence Day to remember when, for the first time ever, “We the People” declared their right to protect themselves from the encroachments of an over-reaching, intrusive government. That formula grew America into a free people and the world’s sole superpower with a quality of life for hundreds of millions, unmatched by any other nation on earth. But as Benjamin Franklin stated on that first Independence Day, the founders “gave us a Republic if we can keep it.” Read Full Story

June 27, 2017—The Gruesome Twosome!

by Henry F. Cooper on June 26, 2017 in EMP, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Iran, North Korea

“The very first missiles we saw in Iran were simply copies of North Korean missiles. . . Over the years, we’ve seen photographs of North Korean and Iranian officials in each other’s countries, and we’ve seen all kinds of common hardware.” ~Jeffrey Lewis, a missile proliferation expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Read Full Story

June 20, 2017—Space Defense Revival?

by Henry F. Cooper on June 19, 2017 in Brilliant Pebbles, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, SDI, Space Defense

“Someday, not too distant; there can come streaking out of somewhere (We won’t be able to hear it, it will come so fast.) some kind of gadget with an explosive so powerful that one projectile will be able to wipe out completely this city of Washington. . . . I think we will meet the attack alright [sic] and, of course, in the air. But I’ll tell you one thing, there won’t be a … pilot in the sky! That attack will be met by machines guided not by human brains, but by devices conjured up by human brains.” ~ General Henry H. Arnold, 1943 Read Full Story