EMP Protection Plan: It’s Your Best Chance To Survive

A Complete Guide To Implementing An EMP Protection Plan…

Let’s face it, a massive EMP attack isn’t just something we read about in dystopian novels anymore—it’s a very real possibility.

Whether it’s Kim Jong Un playing with his nuclear toys, Russia or China testing out their “sky bombs,” or a rogue group getting their hands on tech that could make your smartphone as useful as a brick—the threat is real.

Now, I know what you’re thinking—“Sure, the world could end in a fiery EMP blast… but how likely is it really?” Well, as much as we’d like to stick our heads in the sand, the technology to bring society to its knees is already here. So no, it’s not just another “what-if” scenario.

It’s time to face facts: Preparing for a supermassive EMP is no longer optional—it’s overdue.

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What Is An EMP? (Electromagnetic Pulse)

A conductor moving through a magnetic field produces an electrical current. This helpful technology is how generators work at your local power plant.

Likewise, when a moving magnetic field passes a conductor, it creates a current. This phenomenon is called Electro-Magnetic Pulse, or EMP for short. It sounds technical; it seems complicated. But at first, it doesn’t sound all that scary.

It sounds like something you’d hear a boring physics professor talk about. It’s not a severe national security concern. But don’t be fooled; it’s real and scary. Because what happens if the magnetic field produced is much stronger when it passes through a wire?

Perhaps a pulse large enough to damage the wire.

A pulse so intense it could fry the microscopic wiring in small circuitry.

Given a strong enough magnetic field, microelectronics are destroyed by an electrical burst. By destroyed, I mean entirely burned out. The destruction of electrical components in this manner is called an EMP attack.

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The Weapon That Can Produce A Massive EMP

One way to create a broad-scale EMP pulse is to detonate a nuclear warhead like a hydrogen bomb. The energy release of a nuclear blast creates a sizeable electromagnetic pulse.

This pulse radiates outward in all directions. Any electrical wiring in the path of the pulse will burn out.

The nuclear explosion doesn’t need to be very large to generate a dangerous EMP—at least one that’s hazardous for our computers, not so much for us.

Unlike the radiation from a nuclear explosion, an EMP is not dangerous to people unless you have a pacemaker installed. But it will destroy most unshielded electrical components.

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A nuclear EMP pulse is relatively complex and is often broken into three component pulses:

E1 Pulse

An E1 pulse occurs when gamma radiation from detonation ionizes atoms in the upper atmosphere. The E1 pulse is the fastest component of nuclear EMP. It’s brief but intense.

As the E1 pulse moves through the earth’s magnetic field, it creates microwaves. These microwaves strike the surface with an intense surge of power. It induces high voltages in electrical conductors. Thus causing significant damage by electrical breakdown voltages.

The E1 pulse can destroy computers and communication equipment.

E2 Pulse

The E2 pulse is comparable to the pulse created during lightning strikes. Fortunately, our national infrastructure is (for the most part) already prepared for an E2 pulse.

E3 Pulse

The E3 component is different from both E1 and E2. E3 is a much slower pulse. The E3 component has similarities to a geomagnetic storm caused by a solar flare.

Like a solar flare, E3 can produce powerful currents. Intense enough to damage power lines and transformers (i.e., critical infrastructure).

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Introducing High Altitude Detonations

An EMP pulse travels line-of-sight. So, it can cover a vast area if a nuclear detonation occurs high in the atmosphere. Most nuclear military weapons are not intended for high-altitude detonations.

Because high-altitude detonations do little damage to the enemy and less fallout, the EMP would travel toward everything in its line of sight at high altitudes. Covering thousands of square miles!

An EMP indeed diminishes with distance. But it may still be strong enough at thousands of miles to fry most microelectronics. Making the nuclear EMP a near-perfect weapon for a terrorist group or a rogue nation.

 Here’s an interesting question…

If you were a terrorist organization and could only lay your hands on one nuclear weapon..

• Would you want to blow up one city?
• Or detonate it high enough to wipe out the electrical systems for thousands of cities?

Aside from nuclear weapons, there are EMP-generating devices. These are called “explosively pumped flux compression generators.” These use electromagnetic physics to generate large pulses of electromagnetic energy.

The basic idea is to generate an electromagnetic pulse in a coil surrounding a metal core. At the same time, the coil is compressed into the core using explosives. This change in core geometry causes a compression of the electromagnetic field.

EMPs (nuclear or flux compression) can potentially change the world.

↓ Nuclear Explosion In The Sky | National Geographic

How Much Damage Are We Talking About?

Any devices not shielded against an EMP attack will likely be damaged or destroyed. We’re talking damage to the following:

Which is damn near everything these days.

Can you imagine everyone within a thousand-mile radius losing all power and technology? How about a city like New York or Los Angeles? We are talking about 8-10 million people finding themselves in a pre-industrial world without power!

The only things that still work are mechanical in nature (i.e., guns and bullets)—near-instant anarchy.

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How To Protect From EMP – Your Electronics

There are several ways to protect against an EMP attack. One protection technique is known as electrical shielding. The electromagnetic pulse won’t penetrate the shield if an electrical cable includes a grounded shield.

It will induce a current in the shield and harmlessly release it into the ground. This is great for cables, but what about smaller devices, such as microelectronics?

Introducing The Faraday Cage

You can shield entire devices using something known as a Faraday Cage.

Named after Michael Faraday, an early scientist in the field of electromagnetics. Faraday discovered electromagnetic fields wouldn’t penetrate a container made out of certain metals. Instead, the field impinges on the exterior of the cage.

Since all sides of the cage are electrically connected, there’s no induced electrical current.

For current to flow, there must be a differential in electrical potential. It’s as if there is a short circuit before the current even begins to flow.

Devices held inside the cage are then protected from damaging currents.

Nested EMP Faraday cages are even better. Essentially, nesting is a cage within a cage.

To Buy Or DIY?

You can buy a faraday bag or build your own. You can build a simple Faraday cage by covering a box in aluminum foil.

If you want to protect your devices, wrap them in aluminum foil. But take care; they must be completely covered with no gaps in the foil. Also, if you wish to use multiple layers of foil, place a layer of insulation between them.

Insulation is any material that won’t conduct electricity – like cardboard. Adding the extra layers of thickness to the foil means nothing. The only reason to double wrap is to prevent gaps in the foil.

A galvanized trash can is also a great solution for storing several devices.

Or use both foil and a trash can. Just put your electronics inside a foil-lined cardboard box and place the box inside a trash can.

Ensuring the trash can lid closes entirely and creates a perfect seal.

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Massive EMP Strike – The Aftermath

Now that you have all your devices protected when the terrorist EMP event strikes, you’ll be ready. Assuming you knew an attack was coming in advance and took these defense precautions. So, let’s say you did.

The “Event” Happens, And The Lights Go Out

You quickly retrieve your fully functional cell phone from your foil-lined trash can, a.k.a. Faraday Cage. And presto, you have one of the very few functioning cell phones in the Northern Hemisphere. Congratulations!

• Did your plan pay off? Yes and no…
• How many bars do you have? None?
• Can you hear me now? No?
• You pull out your protected laptop or iPad and boot up. Internet connection? Nope.

You’ve got a four-hour charge on the device, great. Now, where will you plug in your charger? (You remembered to add a charger to your Faraday cage, right?)

• No sweat. I’ve got a small home or camping generator – nope – it’s fried by EMP.
• Oh, but I have home solar panels (or a solar phone charger) – nope – fried by EMP.
• I installed a windmill – nope – the inverter is fried.

The bottom line: The power is out and will stay out for a very long time (maybe even years).

• The utility distribution system has been fried.
• Cell phone towers are fried.
• The water company’s filtration and pumping systems are fried.

Food will quickly begin to spoil, and we just lost a war without firing a single bullet.

2 EMP Preparedness Options

So, the way I see it, you have 3 EMP protection options:

1. Plan For An Amish Future

Get ready for an Amish future. Plan to revert to an 1860 agrarian society. One with the same survival skills our great-great-grandparents lived by.

These are the skills that our modern society has long forgotten.

2. Invest In Faraday Cages & Bags

Store all your devices and appliances inside a Faraday cage or a Faraday bag. So those are your options, and I believe you should do both! Why? Because for only a few dollars, you can protect yourself in a well-rounded way from any EMP attack!

• You can use Faraday cages or Faraday bags to protect backup devices (especially mobile devices…)
• Learning survival skills is ALWAYS a good thing. But even if YOU are one of the lucky few with power, it’s still going to get rough if nobody else does for weeks or months… you’d better be ready to defend it.

You’ll likely be the only one on your block (maybe your town) with any electrical power.

An EMP blast from a single nuclear device at 20 miles altitude will cover a significant portion of the US with an EMP. An enemy doesn’t have to destroy the entire nation to destroy its society. It only needs to kill off large portions of the population!

Even the US Government admits as many as 9 of 10 Americans could die within one year of an EMP attack on our homeland!

There are too many people with too few survival skills. Most US population would quickly perish with no power for a year. Looting, rioting, and murder will be rampant – everywhere. Epic chaos.

That’s why it’s time to take EMP protection seriously and learn some real survival skills.

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The Best Protection Plan 

Step 1

Acquire backups for all your mobile devices – smartphones, emergency crank radios, tablets, survival flashlights, solar phone chargers, etc. Put each device into a homemade Faraday cage or buy a Faraday bag.

Step 2

Brush up on your off-grid homesteading skills. You’ll at least want a book that can help you figure out how to live without power for an extended period of time.

EMP Preparedness like most other long-term emergency disaster preps in many ways. You should have a massive stockpile of prepper food and lots of water. And the self-reliance survival skills to continually replenish your stocks.

Throw in some defense skills as well – to protect your resources and some essential medical supplies—food, water, and medicine.

Yes, it’s as simple as that, but just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it’s easy. The best way to describe the survival skills you need to learn to prepare for an EMP attack is this:

The skills our great-great-grandparents called everyday life we now call survival and prepping.

So, look backward in time for inspiration via The Lost Ways.

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That’s how you prepare for life without power long term. By investing in all 3 steps, you’ll begin your journey to becoming one of the resilient few!

Prepare, Adapt & Overcome,

P.s. - I just found out 2 out of 3 Americans don’t feel prepared for a 3 day disaster!!!

I guess this goes to show how modern society continues to embrace ‘living a fragile life.’ What’s crazy is… it’s so easy to fix.

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