From stockpiling food and other essentials to fortifying our homes to make them more defensible to setting up a bug out location and different routes for getting there, preparing for a major disaster means that we have to take desperate measures.
Just like how we take desperate measures to respond to a potential disaster or crises, the American government does the exact same thing.
In fact, since the 1950s, the White House has continually drafted the PEADs, or Presidential Emergency Action Documents, which are a list of plans to be implemented and enforced in the wake of a major, apocalyptic-level disaster.
The PEADs, which are adjusted with each new Presidential administration, remain highly classified. The Brennan Center for Justice think tank was able to look at five hundred of more than 6,000 PEAD pages for instance.
These pages, among other information we have available, offer a glimpse into the desperate measures the American government is prepared to take in the event of a major disaster.
Here are desperate measures that the United States government is secretly resorting to in preparation for the following disasters:
Nuclear War
In the pre-9/11 era, the primary focus of the PEADs was on preparing the United States for a nuclear war. The chance of a terrorist organization or an enemy of the United States obtaining and detonating a nuclear weapon on American soil still remains a very grave threat.
The purpose of American government plans following a nuclear detonation is to ensure continuity of government, essentially to make sure the United States will never become leaderless and can continue fighting a war.
Today, the United States government has what is called National Response Scenario Number One, which would be enacted in the event of a nuclear device going off on American soil.
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When enacted, all borders would immediately be closed down by the Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Department of Transportation.
Meanwhile, all commercial air traffic will become grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration once it enacts the SCATANA (Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids) plan. Only Department of Defense flights would be authorized.
The military will then be placed at DEFCON 1, the highest readiness alert level. The military, NSA, CIA, FBI, and local law enforcement groups would then work together to conduct a massive investigation to determine two things:
1. If any other nuclear devices could go off in the country
2. Who was responsible for the first blast
Such an event would also surely result in a major lockdown of the country as well. All areas affected by the blast and areas believed to be under threat would be placed under martial law. American military and law enforcement units would confiscate firearms
The supply chains would also be shut down as incoming flights and shipments ground to a halt and the supply trucks stop running, resulting in major supply shortages all over the country.
EMP Attacks
An EMP, or electromagnetic pulse, would target America’s infrastructure by producing a huge wave of energy that would cause dramatic voltage in electric systems.
This would simultaneously knock out electric grids and virtually anything that runs on a computer. Cell towers, internet service, most car engines, transformers, and backup generators would be knocked out in an instant.
If detonated high enough and if the blast was powerful enough, an EMP attack would have the potential to knock down the power grid from coast-to-coast.
America would be thrown almost all the way back to the 1800s overnight, and a full recovery would take years, if not decades.
In the realm of surviving an EMP attack, one item emerges as crucial: the EMP Cloth. By shielding your essential devices and equipment from the devastating impact of electromagnetic pulses, it guarantees the preservation of vital communication, power generation, and navigation capabilities.
So how is the government preparing for an EMP attack?
That’s actually a good question. Most believe that the government’s defense against an EMP blast is weak at best.
While the Trump Administration passed the Coordination National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulse act in 2019 to increase research on EMP vulnerabilities in the countries, actual defense measures taken have been minimal.
When the Biden Administration invested over thirteen billion dollars into the US energy grid, the money went into improving the reliability of the power grid and defensive measures against cyberattacks, but not against EMP attacks.
If an EMP attack were to be enacted, we can expect a similar response to what the government would do in the event of an EMP attack, only perhaps more drastic.
Flights would become grounded as, but the entire country would almost certainly be placed on major lockdowns and martial law would be declared nationwide while an investigation into the perpetrator of the EMP would commence
Supply Shortages
The threat of a major supply shortage in the United States is very real.
We saw this in the pandemic, in which we saw a major shortage of basic necessities and medical equipment.
You can learn here an ingenious way to stockpile prescription medications at home and what medical supplies you need to stockpile before the next crisis hits.
This is why the US government has a Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), which is one of the reserves the country uses for strategic and economic purposes. The SNS is a massive stockpile of petroleum, medical equipment, and additional materials that the government can draw upon when there is a major disruption to supply.
While the exact contents of the SNS stockpile are kept a secret, it is known that the total value of the stockpile is over $8 billion. While that may sound a lot, the truth is that the SNS was largely understocked to respond to the pandemic properly.
It’s also likely that the government would be undersupplied in an event to respond to a future oil shortage. The Biden administration also drew millions of barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves last year in response to the rising gas prices, an act that many politicians and leaders over the country called desperate and unnecessary. Officials have now stated that it will take years to have those reserves refilled.
In short, a major disaster of apocalyptic proportions in the United States would result in an apocalyptic-level response from the government.
But is the government truly prepared to respond to a major threat? We’ve seen how the government has plans to initiate a nationwide shutdown in the result of a nuclear attack, and this would almost certainly happen following a major EMP attack as well.
But we’ve also seen how the American government’s stockpile of medicine and oil is vastly understocked as well. So how well could the U.S. government actually respond?
At the end of the day, we won’t know until such an apocalyptic-level happens. But don’t count on the government to come rescue you. That’s why it’s important to keep the focus on yourself and on your family. Make your own stockpile and have your own emergency preparations ready to go.
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I’m somewhat less concerned about huge major SHTF like these… and more worried about the creeping powers that come in at each incremental step down we are taking.
In a massive SHTF moment the govt will lock down and run around and control… but for the average Joe Prepper on the streets it will be clear that a simple and quiet low notice bug out plan is to be considered… and a good bug out plan has multiple plans in it. Having lived in an area that was locked down during COVID including heavily controlled transport in and out of the city (permit system), I am very aware that egress can be controlled, but it takes a huge amount of man power and a willing population, so even internal borders and stay at home orders will only last so long.
Instead worry about the fact that there’s layers and layers of laws that can be used to enforce control TODAY, and the small impacts they are having. Can’t put a shipping container on yoru land without a building permit? Neighbour dobbing you in to the council because your furniture removal truck blocked the foot path for 15mins (zero pedestrians walked the path in that time)?
There’s 100 sticky fingers in the control pie already.
I personally think that everyone should develop and initiate their bugout plan now! (I live at my bugout location although I do have a contingency plan if even staying here were impossible.) I suggest creating a business where you can work from home, pay off your bills, find a home in a secluded rural area, move there and begin developing a self sufficient lifestyle. Once you’ve stopped making excuses on why you can’t do it, and make the decision, it’s not as hard as you might think!
It’s wishful thinking, don’t believe in Diversity, Inclusion, Equity or DIE.
We can’t save the world or our country on the collision course we are on.
We can save ourselves, the family, the next door neighbor at a time.
We are past the tipping point, it’s whether we can claw back back to normal is the question.
Hi Cygnet
If you ever took along, or anyone who has been to your bug out place, if ANYONE took a cell phone along, even turned off, your place is no longer a secret. This new NWO govt loves those as they take pics and video, reveal your location…. NOT under your control and yes, even if you think it’s turned off. Edward Snowden, a former NSA agent would know and he talks about it on YouTube.
Also as told by a friend in California; “Insurance cancelled?! Millions of Californians will soon be dropped or face massive spikes in premiums on their homeowners insurance — because home insurance companies can no longer afford to do business in the state due to skyrocketing disaster claims and the costly regulations imposed by California’s liberal politicians.”
As California goes, so goes the rest of America. California is the liberal’s test bed of destruction. This is coming to your State soon!
not Florida
Not Nebraska
It might not be in your State now. But how long until the liberals gain control of your State politics. These liberals do have motivation, the Republicans complain about the other party. When they get in charge they cave, usually spineless to the Demoncrats.
Look at both sides they have encounters with foreign agents. Right now it’s the Demoncrats, like Swall-well pumping a Chinese agent. Fine-stiener had a Chinese agent Chauffeur for 20 years. Then we have Repub majority whip has a Chinese wife influencer. A lot of them are bought out by greed and some are open about it.
Who actually is currently running the American government, it’s not Joe.
New York not far behind with the morons running it.
you can add in the Emergency Powers Act that almost every individual state has in its state charter – the Governors have almost unlimited dictatorship and immediate command to the state’s national guard and FEMA type state agency >>> you can expect martial law and state border closings depending on the SHTF – during the Covid Con several governors came close to closing their state borders to neighboring state traffic ….
Biden’s dam EO’s first day tyranny of Open Southern Border, canceling our country’s oil production. Letting Dr. ‘F’ rule the country’s healthcare system helped the CCP and Russia’s Putin advance their regimes.
The Sanctuary Blue States another stupid move voted in by the American Sheeple. Curtesy of the mail-in ballots and help from illegals voting. The govt says illegals don’t vote and the voting machines were not the problem, guess again. Can you really believe what the federal government says with the current clowns in charge?
NOT. ONE. DAMN. WORD.
Vile, evil filthy traitors are running this country.
Agreed Warrior – The local government can and did have devastating effects during the COVID circus. Our local County Judge went full Marxist (I am in Central Texas) right away, with commissioners and mayors backing up the fiasco. They had no idea what to do so he piped in the California Scare Plan and decided who could open, who could go out of business and where locals could search for essentials. By the way, So did our Governor. The Judge lost his next election and when he ran for State Office, he was sent home permanently. Local Government can be just as nasty as the Feds when they are overwhelmed and totally under equipped mentally to coup. They default to letting someone else dictate to them their actions with no regard for the local population. That can impact your SHTF plan greatly.
That was not the pandemic, it was the plandemic probably concocted by Biden’s handlers in the CCP. Kind of funny how Trump is massacred by the Marxist.
Biden get’s a free pass on VP stolen documents left everywhere without the Secret Service guarding the docs like Trump did.
The university office space funded by the CCP had access to vital secret documents.
So who is the big bad wolf of being a leakier, a conspirator a traitor to America?
Plandemic initiated by Ccp and evil extreme leftists for many reasons. 1—world wanted Trump gone as he was bringing us to CLEAR leadership—-our own losers on both sides didnt like it and neither did the rest of the world as he made them all pay their own way and was ending the monetary bleeding of working class Americans.
2—-the world including our losers wanted the US to get used to socialism.
3——population control. I dont think it worked as they hoped though. (Not enough perished).
The Covid Con was a test phase to see where the American mindset is at.
It’s no different back in the Viet Nam War we had the 1970’s hippie daze.
There was Timothy Leary’s LSD, university Marxist riots and other demonstrations.
These were the precursors back then to the BLM, Antifa protesters of today. There were domestic and foreign agencies that were doing psych ops on the public. We had the Viet Nam War and the Cold War going on. There’s no difference between the make love not war hippies and the woke, cancel culture of today.
Are we smart enough to traverse the past and current path of America’s destruction?
ANTIFA = anti facists
Major problem – AntiFa uses classic Fascist tactics so their name is only a facade, a false front, a masquerade. They are the true fascists. The so-called “MAGA Republicans” are closer to the Libertarians (dare I say “the Founding Fathers?”) than they are to Fascists, Nazis or any of the other labels that the Progressives, AntiFas and Democrats want to give them.
“What is in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Wm. Shakespeare
Hi Gary
The old hippies were in fact different in that they wouldn’t kill you and rejoice about it as today’s BLM and Aunt Teefa will and have, and maybe even get paid by the current cabal in power as a reward for being their internal proxy army against patriots.
The vicious lefties will do ANYTHING to reach end goals, and I mean anything. This includes regular citizen lefties.
Living in a free state, my LEO’s won’t take my guns or they will die trying. Borders? We haven’t had borders for the last couple of years. I can’t help the feeling that something very bad is coming soon. My prayer is that the church survives and after the dust settles, leads the way to a new revival. It will be one hot mess.
Let’s not forget the Christian religious churches in America have helped cause the illegals crisis. They give comfort and aid to the illegal invaders flooding America at taxpayer’s expense.
The American Seniors can’t afford getting overtaxed to these freeloaders.
Senior in Blue State are being pushed out of their homes because of excessive taxes.
Property taxes for one, the illegal are subsidies by Americans. The politicians don’t care, it’s other peoples money, not theirs.
Many of these illegals don’t assimilate into American culture. “Borders, Language and Culture.” The California voter ballots are printed up in several languages, more than English. No wonder the 45 College Electoral votes go towards the Democrats in California. When you give free money to freeloaders they will vote for that political side.
A free State is only as free until the liberals move in to change the politics in their favor.
For all who are loyal , conservative , and Free
Time to speak up , tell others , stand tall and cancel the liars networks
spread the word of the coverups
Money , Power , extortion , Leverage on all levels
If you talk , or say something in the gov . Beware
suicide is prevalant and coverups in great demand
Since our governments have been Extorted and controlled by evil , this is what you get
Time for Self Control is imminent , your in jeapordy now and if you can resort to
a circle of confidence group , Secrecy , meet with and speak with those you can trust
Build a circle of Trust
so the corrupt , enslaved group of extortionist cannot force you to comply
Deep battle for the minds, hearts , souls of humanity right now
Ukrane is just to keep you from paying attention to the real battle out there
Plan , Prepare, prep for the worst
Not what you think
Wars , Rumors , and Peace and safety
Then Rapture, War , total Control
Nowhere to hide and no where to go , they the elites will force marshall law thru global religeon
YOU will be forced to worship the anti god , Beast, fake , look alike , phoney copy
yes there will be foneys , copys , not the real thing
research while you can
Look it up while you still can
koas, anarchy, then forced religeon for the good of the earth , reset , global liars club , networks that only tell you enough to convince you to follow the lie
replace the true God , with the lie god
M+ Live…as if everything depends on God. Prepare…… as if everytying depends on me.
Fr. Chuck…2 tours in Viet Nam…Army Airborne Chaplain.
God bless America!!!!!!
Welcome Home Chap! All The Way!
We can believe in God Almighty all day too. As said by others God helps and believes in those who pull themselves up, stand tall. We civilians are not here to save the whole world.
There has always been rich and poor people on earth since the beginning of humankind.
Some are incapable to live on their own, some take advantage of others.
Prepping is a private affair for your self or for the family as it was in the 20th century.
The Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is nothing more than Marxism coming out of the closet. Woke is nothing more than being a socialist crybaby with a tantrum added.
A nuclear exchange with thousands of warheads will turn into a major extinction event for everyone and every living thing. Afterwards we can look forward to an irradiated landscape and nuclear winter. Let’s not kid ourselves. An NBC Apocalypse will wipe the planet clean of governments and the people they govern. The best preppers can last for a while but surviving in a post Nuclear environment will be more than challenging. A cobalt casing on a nuclear weopan will make the detonation site radioactive for 500 years. Once the WMD genie is out of the bottle all sorts of Biologicals and chemical agents will be unleashed. Use em or lose em will prevail. The best prep for this scenario is to prevent the Holocaust in the first place.
The Chinese for sure won’t nuke the USA, they already half of America. They need our farmlands intact to feed their populations.
Now Russia might but they want the USA for vacations spots. The NK, Iran are more likely to nuke.
Don’t forget Biden gave billions of USD in weapons to the Middle Yeast Throat cutters. A future problem coming across the Southern Border. What are you going todo?
One thing that everyone should be aware of. The number of people involved in law enforcement is about 2 per 1,000 citizens. If the people can organize quickly martial law or any other government suppression can be overcome. When this begins to take hold many in law enforcement including national guard will disappear to take care of their own families.
So getting organized with neighborhood friends and relatives can be just as important as bugging out.
No matter how organized we get a lead bullet shot hurts on our end of things. You could be laying in a pool of blood from a firefight. And the healthcare people are no longer available to patch you up.
Measure twice cut once; think twice before you react emotionally. The military has more bullets to use before high tailing to protect their family.
There are holdouts on both sides, who will be the problems.
The lower 48 states have a combined area of over three million square miles. Russia and China combined have (best estimate) under seven thousand nuclear weapons. Given that current military strategies call for more air bursts than ground bursts, while there will be a great deal of fallout, there will be hundreds of thousands of square miles of land in the US that will have very little direct effects from a nuclear exchange.
This does not mean that there will not be massive damage and massive deaths and some significant amounts of land will have to wait for the fallout to decay before they can be used again. However, the other effects of a nuclear exchange besides the direct destruction and fallout, such as the loss of most of our infrastructure, will be the largest cause of deaths. Still, even with a 90% die-off, there would still be three million or more people that would survive and begin the recovery.
Nuclear war is not the end of civilization, the end of all life on earth, or any of the other extreme, dire consequences some propose. Sure, it is far better to prevent nuclear war, as long as we do not subject ourselves to things that might even be worse, but nuclear war is survivable, as long as one is not at ground zero of a device.
Just my opinion.
We can speculate on what will happen, nothing is for sure in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Nukes have been the fear mongering advantage for the hawkish-doves who run these dangerous weapons.
Japan learned the hard way. Germany Nazi’s were very close, Russia. We have a nuke club of nations some are level headed, others are hot heads with a hair trigger intent.
You got the Middle East with hot heads, don’t forget India and Pakistan.
It’s a fine kettle of fish we have.
Now you have an failed president that was trying to sell nuclear secrets to other and was arrested for it.
But all of this stuff is just fear mongoring, nothing more. Getting folks all rilled up for nothing.
There no EMP, there’s no SHTF, theres no nuclear war, there’s no food shortages. With the food, its called “Supply and Demand”.
Time to stop living in fear folks.
You are so right about it all from the Marxist teacher you laid. I was right behind you holding your pig tails back in high school boinking you at your locker.
You were great until you went gay and tried to be a man. How’s your wife lately?
What are you doing these days? Let’s get together share old times.
Apparently you were asleep during covid.
From the article: “When enacted, all borders would immediately be closed down by the Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Department of Transportation.”
Isn’t it interesting that the plans call for the immediate closing of all borders in the midst of a calamity but the government can’t seem to close one border when things are rolling along normally. Well… things are normal everywhere except at our Southern border. Things are still in crisis mode there.
We can also point a finger to us too. We let this happen, we were also distributed by our DC Swamp leaders all these decades. Now a lot of people are waking up from the sleep we were in. The high upper level leadership is corrupt, they deceive us.
Why should we let freeloaders into our America, for what?
They did in Europe and see the problems they encountered since then. We are just starting our downfall. Let them all come in, sure pal.
Is there a real defence against an EMP for your property? How deep underground would your bunker have to be to protect yourself from an EMP? Somewhere a long time ago I saw an article about a water system that can generate Hydro power and is enclosed so evaporation isn’t a worry. Does anyone know where to find it? How long will batteries to generate power last sitting on a shelf and not used? Thanks for any replies.
These sound like legitimate questions, from someone new to Prepping or the whole EMP potential situation. I thought that was what this site was for, to research or answer questions like that; no idea why someone would “down vote” your request for information.
EMP = Electromagnetic Pulse; this would typically result from a nuclear burst a mile or so above the ground. The reason an enemy might want to do that, rather than a ground burst, is that the EMP would typically burn out most sensitive electronics (i.e. anything with tiny computer chips in it), but NOT result in a whole lot of fallout (radioactively contaminated dirt & debris, that gets shot up into the atmosphere and blown around to fall like ash in a wide radius from the blast site, depending on wind and weather conditions.) Any enemy who is planning to actually invade and conquer – i.e. take over and use the land for their own people – would most likely prefer to not have to wait 500 years for radioactivity to die down. And they would expect the current occupants – in this case, US residents – to be easy to conquer and control, once all our electronic conveniences from cars to phones to computers and computerized equipment have all been destroyed.
Of course, that assumes the victim has not had time to launch their own nuclear strike: in that case, both sides will end up needing years to recover – which is the basic idea behind “nuclear deterrence”.
To answer your original question: the good news is, it doesn’t require feet let alone miles of material to protect your electronics, for most scenarios. The article contains a link to “EMP Cloth”, which I believe is basically a cloth that is impregnated with metal or woven with metallic strands; I believe there are other articles about EMP and how to protect things from one, elsewhere on this site. It’s been a while since I read them, but if I remember correctly a study metal shield such as a metal trash can or (for small items) a metal ammo box is supposed to be sufficient to shield computer chips, spare solar cells, etc. from most EMP. (This is assuming you are not at ground zero of a nuclear blast, but just within range to be affected by the huge flash and super magnetic pulse that is produced by any nuclear bomb; say 10 to 50 miles away or more.) Think of the air blast as kind of a giant super fireworks explosion that occurs, say, a mile up above one of the states: the blast will radiate out in all directions, light and electrical and magnetic and radio waves at more or less the speed of light, followed (if I remember my old civics class correctly) by sound waves (boom!), followed by shock waves of force (the part that will knock down trees, buildings, etc. – but will also lose energy and die out a lot sooner In distance than the electromagnetic/radio type waves. The latter will continue to travel until they hit something (like the ground or a building) and may affect things over several states, depending on the height, strength of the blast, etc.
SO: all other issues aside, most preppers recommend you keep some spare electronics, such as small solar chargers (the kind that can charge a cell phone), spare solar cells (for your rooftop solar panels, if you are using them to live off grid), 2-way radios, spare cell phone, certain auto parts, you name it, inside some kind of EMP-proof container. I think the term “Faraday cage” also refers to such a container.
But I’m no expert, I just read a lot of these articles and comments. Continue to research, and find out what is best for your particular situation, and what types of threats you consider to be the most likely to occur near your location.
There was some Roman guy who called politics “the eternally stormy sea”, each storm supplanted by a new crisis. After watching politics for three score years, I don’t get too excited. What used to offend me, now simply amuses. What was called a vice is now a habit or lifestyle. Best advice I got was from an old Choctaw lady, “Don’t worry, when we got here all we had was a sharp stick and a pot. If that is all we have to get by then we can still do so”.
Isn’t that Bideni the Trojan Wonder Horse, by chance?
There is a book, or series of books that I strongly recommend. “One Second After” written by William R. Forstchen. He was encouraged to write this by Newt Gingrich and other politicians regarding the Strong Possibility of an EMP. They are concerned about it, but our government has not prepared for it.
Yes, it is a novel. It takes place in NC mountains. It shows the SHTF quite well, and the way the people were turning on others for survival and the way our Feds made things worse.
if you and anyone else that thinks Forstchen’s fictional novel is anything close to realistic – think again – no terrorist in this world is going to use their one & only nuke opportunity for some EMP stunt – they’ll want to see the blood count of their terrorism before they get squashed >>> try Times Square – the Capitol Building – LA Central City or some other major US city hosting a televised live event ….
any EMP that hits the US will be a very short lived major SHTF – timed to be an initial disruption mere minutes before the Mother of God nuke war follows – fried electric grid transformers will be the least of your worries …..
Will the EMP cloth that I just purchased protect the electronic control pad on my gun safe by cutting a piece and taping it over the panel?
Back to the original theme of this posted article-
According to the government doing secret things.
A cousin still living in California sent me this website information.
A California successful group, Reform California, has, is fighting a liberal San Diego mileage gas tax. The sleaze ball city council, SANDAG are trying like LA city has for a mileage tax. There is push-back going on.
If you can support them you are helping your fellow conservatives in other States. Or start a similar group in your State, contact them.
California and other liberal States are secretly pushing the climate and UN agenda. You do know a famous auto maker has applied a patent for a remote starting device on vehicle gas or electric. This means the fed, State, local politicians can remotely turnoff your vehicle practically anywhere.
Old saying as others mentioned what goes in California so goes the rest of America.
Why should we get solar panels, wind mills and electric cars? The majority is made in China by slave labor. What is the problem with gas cars and stoves?
The minority population of environmentalism is not what the majority population of the world wants.
Nukes are a fear mongering distraction tactic.
With the open Southern border the adversaries could have or have already brought nuke devices into America.
Thank you Biden and the DC Swamp weaken our Border Patrol units being babysitters to potential terrorists. Who benefits from all this chaos?
Why should we Americans put up with this?
Lisa Blake is the alter ego of Raven Piece of Shit.
The both need an intervention.In a mental institution.
They’re government, not your master. They’re the useful enemy, nothing to get worked up about. Do what you want. It’s still America, same soil as it was when our European ancestors conquered this land for us. It’s your birthright. Enjoy.
“Desperation is a tender trap
It gets you everytime” – Paul Hewson, et al
There’s a change a’coming.