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EMP Wars

Conspiracy theorists on the Internet are very worked up these days over what they believe may have been the first shot in an exotic war of the future. On November 8, 2010, it is said, the People’s Republic of China was the aggressor and the Carnival Cruise Line’s ship, the Carnival Spendor, was the victim. The incident was widely reported. What was not so widely reported was the suspicion in some quarters that a mysterious missile fired from a Chinese submarine may have been the cause. According to the website www.abovetopsecret.com, and others, although the missile was not explosive, it was, nonetheless, the real reason for the catastrophic crippling of the ship.

The Carnival Spendor typically holds 3,200 passengers and over 1.100 crewmembers. It was only two years old and had been moved to Long Beach, California, in 2009. The fateful voyage was set to make stops in Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and finally, Cabo San Lucas. On the day of the purported attack, the Carnival Spendor was cruising from Long Beach to Mexican waters. At 6:00 a.m. (Pacific Standard Time), it is said that the ship was hit with what is called an “Electromagnetic Pulse” or an EMP. The immediate effect was that all its electronics were shut down, and the ship was now dead in the water. The EMP causes rapidly changing electric fields. This in turn produces damaging current and voltage surges.

The Carnival Spendor did have an emergency generator that was unharmed, but it could not power many areas of the ship. Lighting was minimal; there were no propulsion, no air conditioning, and no working bathrooms. The USS Ronald Reagan brought food in the form of Spam, which had some passengers joking about their “Spam Cruise.” Because its engines had no power, the Carnival Spendor drifted for 55 miles off the Mexican coast. Many became seasick from the rolling waves. Finally the tugs arrived, and the ship was towed 150 miles back to San Diego. It took nearly 30 hours to get to a dock where the ship could be repaired and its 3,000 unhappy passenger could finally disembark.

Blogger Sorcha Faal, writing for the conspiracist website WhatDoesItMean.com, quotes an alleged Kremlin report, said to have been prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Director Anatoly Perminov of the Russian Federal Space Agency, stating that an Arkon-1 military satellite monitoring the western coastal regions of North America had detected an ‘EMP anomalous event’ occurring on November 8 at 0600 Pacific Standard Time. The report, says Faal, goes on, “Nearly 11 hours after this EMP ‘event’… Arkon-1 then detected a BGM-109 (Tomahawk) subsonic cruise missile launched from a U.S. Navy Ohio-Class submarine operating off the coast of California.” The US Navy, however, had waited 11 hours to launch its own retaliatory missile, virtually assuring that nothing would be hit.

Meanwhile, the official story was that the trouble was caused by an engine room fire, raising questions over just how such a modern ship could suffer such a problem. One retired U.S. Navy propulsion expert, Sam Jemison, stated publicly that computers, switchboards, and cables connected the Carnival Spendor’s six engines. There would be several fail-safes built into such a ship, he said.

Why, it is wondered, would the Chinese commit such a threatening act? There are two widely discussed theories. The first is to test new weaponry. While an EMP attack is not designed to take human life, it does have consequences. In war it could stop a fleet of ships. The second theory is that Chinese intelligence wanted to measure America’s response time. President Obama was in India when the ‘attack’ took place. The 11-hour delay, it is speculated, was not due to military failure but was intended to show force without escalating the situation.

If indeed the Carnival Spendor was hit with an EMP strike, it is difficult to overstate the significance of the attack. Clearly the wars of the future may be unlike anything the world has yet seen.

Game Changer

From ancient to modern times, new weapons have changed the course of battles and wars and history. Archimedes, generally known for his achievements in mathematics and science, also contributed many inventions to military purposes. He lived in a coastal city of Sicily, Syracuse, which came under attack by the Roman navy. To defend his home, Archimedes invented a machine dubbed the “Iron Hand” which looked something like a catapult. It reached out like a crane, whereupon its grappling tackle could hook and capsize the enemy ship. Long before the science fiction versions, he invented the “Heat Ray.” Using curved reflective surfaces; the magnified light of the sun was deployed against the invading ships, which could be set on fire. Archimedes also invented a “steam cannon” that used heat and water to launch missiles. The siege of Syracuse failed.

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