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"China's
No First Use Nuclear Fiction" |
with Dr. Peter Pry |
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EMP Task Force!! |
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry served as Chief of Staff to
the Congressional Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Commission. He is
the Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland
Security, a Congressional Advisory Board dedicated to achieving
protection of the United States from electromagnetic pulse (EMP),
Cyber Warfare, mass destruction terrorism and other threats to
civilian critical infrastructures, on an accelerated basis. Dr. Pry
also is Director of the United States Nuclear Strategy Forum, an
advisory board to Congress on policies to counter Weapons of Mass
Destruction. Foreign governments, including the United Kingdom,
Israel, Canada, and Kazakhstan consult with Dr. Pry on EMP, Cyber,
and other strategic threats.
Dr. Pry served on the staffs of the Congressional Commission on the
Strategic Posture of the United States (2008-2009); the Commission
on the New Strategic Posture of the United States (2006-2008); and
the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack (2001-2008).
Dr. Pry served as Professional Staff on the House Armed Services
Committee (HASC) of the U.S. Congress, with portfolios in nuclear
strategy, WMD, Russia, China, NATO, the Middle East, Intelligence,
and Terrorism (1995-2001). While serving on the HASC, Dr. Pry was
chief advisor to the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services
Committee and the Vice Chairman of the House Homeland Security
Committee, and to the Chairman of the Terrorism Panel. Dr. Pry
played a key role: running hearings in Congress that warned
terrorists and rogue states could pose EMP and Cyber threats,
establishing the Congressional EMP Commission, helping the
Commission develop plans to protect the United States from EMP and
Cyber Warfare, and working closely with senior scientists and the
nation's top experts on critical infrastructures, EMP and Cyber
Warfare.
Dr. Pry was an Intelligence Officer with the Central Intelligence
Agency responsible for analyzing Soviet and Russian nuclear
strategy, operational plans, military doctrine, threat perceptions,
and developing U.S. paradigms for strategic warning (1985-1995). He
also served as a Verification Analyst at the U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency responsible for assessing Soviet arms control
treaty compliance (1984-1985).
Dr. Pry has written numerous books on national security issues,
including Blackout Wars; Apocalypse Unknown: The
Struggle To Protect America From An Electromagnetic Pulse
Catastrophe; Electric Armageddon: Civil-Military
Preparedness For An Electromagnetic Pulse Catastrophe; War
Scare: Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink; Nuclear
Wars: Exchanges and Outcomes; The Strategic Nuclear
Balance: And Why It Matters; and Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal.
Dr. Pry often appears on TV and radio as an expert on national
security issues. The BBC made his book War Scare into a
two-hour TV documentary Soviet War Scare 1983 and his book Electric
Armageddon was the basis for another TV documentary Electronic
Armageddon made by the National Geographic.
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Dr.
Pry has excellent articles on NewMax!! Click below:

THE HILL: China's 'no first
use' nuclear fiction
BY DR. PETER VINCENT PRY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 06/24/20 03:00
PM EDT
Many China experts in government and academia, and anti-nuclear
activists such as the Union of Concerned Scientists and the
Federation of American Scientists, appear not to be worried by
China’s rapidly growing nuclear capabilities, because Beijing’s
official policy promises that China will not be the first to
employ nuclear weapons in a conflict. Beijing promises that its
nuclear forces are for deterrence and retaliation only, not for
aggression.
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Western analysts
consistently fail to understand that, for both
Beijing and Moscow, nuclear war plans are
national security “crown jewels” that they try
to protect and conceal behind a bodyguard of
lies and disinformation. Trusting open sources
and commentary — especially when they are
intended to cast nuclear doctrine in the most
benign possible way — is a big mistake.
For example, during the Cold War the USSR went
to extraordinary lengths to misinform Western
policymakers and the public that Moscow had a
nuclear “no first use” doctrine. This was
intended to conceal its real nuclear war plans —
that we now know entailed a massive nuclear
first strike early in a conflict. The “no first
use” disinformation campaign also was intended
to mobilize Western anti-nuclear activists, in
and out of government, to constrain U.S. nuclear
programs and operational plans.
China’s alleged nuclear “no first use” doctrine,
like the USSR’s during the Cold War, is almost
certainly disinformation. “No first use” for
China does not withstand the test of common
sense.
No conservative military planner would adopt “no
first use” when China lacks ballistic missile
early warning system (BMEWS) radars and
satellite early warning systems that would
enable China to launch on tactical warning. “No
first use” would doom China’s nuclear deterrent
to certain destruction by a U.S. or Russian
conventional or nuclear first strike, or to a
nuclear first strike by India. China’s nuclear
posture, especially the lack of early warning
radars and satellites, is “use it or lose it,”
which logically should drive Chinese military
planners toward nuclear first use — indeed,
toward surprise first use early in a crisis or
conflict, based on strategic warning.
Regardless of China’s “no first use”
declaration, it strains credulity that Beijing’s
political leaders would adhere to such a policy
if confronted with compelling political and
military intelligence of an imminent U.S.
attack. Such strategic warning was the basis for
the former USSR’s secret plans for a disarming
nuclear first strike under their VRYAN (surprise
nuclear missile attack) intelligence program,
that nearly resulted in a nuclear apocalypse
during NATO’s theater nuclear exercise Able
Archer 83.
Fortunately, at least some U.S. military leaders
are not as naïve as academics about China’s “no
first use” pledge. Adm. Charles Richard, chief
of U.S. Strategic Command, testified to the
Senate Armed Services Committee in February that
he could “drive a truck through China’s ‘no
first use’ policy.”
China’s unprecedented rapid expansion of its
nuclear and missile capabilities is not
consistent with a belief in “minimum deterrence”
and “no first use.” It looks imitative of
Russia’s policy seeking escalation dominance for
nuclear diplomacy and nuclear war fighting.
Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency, warned in May 2019: “China
is likely to at least double the size of its
nuclear stockpile in the course of implementing
the most rapid expansion and diversification of
its nuclear arsenal in China’s history. … China
launched more ballistic missiles for testing and
training than the rest of the world combined.”
China’s political and military leaders often
have threatened nuclear war. In 2011, columnist
Gordon Chang reported: “Former Chinese general
Xu Guangyu … suggested China was planning a
surprise missile attack on the American
homeland.”
The People’s Liberation Army Second Artillery
Corps — now the PLA Rocket Force, equivalent to
U.S. Strategic Command — leaked a planning
document, “Lowering the Threshold of Nuclear
Threats,” that stipulated some conditions under
which, in response to U.S. conventional attacks,
China would launch a nuclear first strike. For
example: “Targets that could draw such a
response include any of China’s leading urban
centers or its atomic or hydroelectric power
facilities.”
China’s military doctrine — including numerous
examples of using nuclear EMP attack to win on
the battlefield, defeat U.S. aircraft carriers,
and achieve against the U.S. homeland a surprise
“Pearl Harbor” writ large — is replete with
technical and operational planning consistent
with a nuclear first strike. Indeed, China’s
classification of nuclear EMP attack in military
doctrine as “electronic warfare” or “information
warfare” indicates that EMP is not even
considered a form of nuclear attack, but would
be equivalent to non-nuclear EMP weapons and
cyber warfare.
In March, a panel of China’s military experts
threatened to punish U.S. Navy ships for
challenging China’s illegal annexation of the
South China Sea by making an EMP attack — one of
the options they considered least provocative
because the crew would be unharmed, but most
effective because the ship would be disabled.
Like other evidence, this, too, suggests Beijing
considers EMP attack as something short of
nuclear or even kinetic conflict, akin to “gray
zone” threats such as electronic and cyber
warfare.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry was chief of staff of the
Congressional EMP Commission and served on the
staff of the House Armed Services Committee and
at the CIA. He is the author of several books,
including “The Power And The Light: The
Congressional EMP Commission’s War To Save
America 2001-2020” (2020). |
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China:
EMP Threat
Chinese Military Doctrine: EMP Attack
Decisive
China has long known about nuclear
high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP)
and invested in protecting military forces
and critical infrastructures from HEMP and
other nuclear weapon effects during the Cold
War, and continuing today. China has HEMP
simulators and defensive and offensive
programs that are almost certainly more
robust than any in the United States.
China's military doctrine regards nuclear
HEMP attack as an extension of information
or cyber warfare, and deserving highest
priority as the most likely kind of future
warfare.
China EMP Threat_Peter Pry.pdf
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Beyond
Hiroshima - Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
Saturday, 01 August 2020 10:48
August 6th marks the 75th anniversary of the
1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing, which ended
World War II and began a new era in world
history, overshadowed by nuclear weapons.
Beyond Hiroshima.pdf
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The
Power And The Light: The Congressional EMP
Commission's War To Save America 2001-2020
by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
Electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
manmade or natural, from solar superstorms, can
blackout electric grids and other
life-sustaining critical infrastructures putting
at risk the lives of millions. 9 of 10 Americans
could die from starvation, disease, or societal
collapse from a nuclear EMP attack that
blacks-out the U.S. for a year. A solar
superstorm could blackout electric grids
worldwide, putting at risk the lives of
billions. A small heroic band of scientists and
national security experts serving on the
Congressional EMP Commission have been striving
for 20 years to protect America from the
existential threat that is EMP. Their war to
save America from ignorant armies that are the
government bureaucracy, electric utility
lobbies, and an irresponsible press is not yet
won, and may soon be lost. |
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Blackout
Wars: State Initiatives to Achieve Preparedness
Against an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
Catastrophe
by
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, David Drummond, et al.
2015
Blackout Wars is about
the historically unprecedented threat to our
electronic civilization from its dependence on
the electric power grid. Most Americans have
experienced temporary blackouts, and regard them
as merely an inconvenience. Some Americans have
experienced more protracted local and regional
blackouts, as in the aftermaths of Hurricanes
Sandy and Katrina, and may be better able to
imagine the consequences of a nationwide
blackout lasting months or years, that plunges
the entire United States into the dark. read
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EMP
Manhattan Project
by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry 2018
The electromagnetic
pulse (EMP) threat to the United States is
existential and growing. EMPs can occur with a
nuclear explosion in space, cyberattacks,
terrorist attacks, physical threats or a large
coronal mass ejection from the sun, all of which
are described in this book. Any of these EMPs
could wipe out not only our electric grid, but
anything with a computer chip in it, sending the
U.S. back to the 1850s. Within a year after grid
failure, the EMP Commission tells us that 9 out
of 10 Americans will succumb to dehydration,
starvation, gang and other violence, murder,
suicide, breakdown of society and diseases. The
government needs to take action now by forming
an EMP Manhattan Project that focuses on
hardening our electric grid. If it doesn't,
those who survive will be existing in a country
unrecognizable. read
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Civil-Military
Preparedness For An Electromagnetic Pulse
Catastrophe
by Dr. Peter
Vincent Pry
In my long experience,
no other single issue has been such a scientific
and national security conundrum as
electromagnetic pulse (EMP). The phenomenon
itself is not easy to explain to non-scientists,
be they policymakers, generals, or ordinary
citizens. The EMP threat seems like the stuff of
science fiction. Yet your life depends upon
understanding EMP. |
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War
Scare: Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink
by Dr. Peter
Vincent Pry
Why do some American
intelligence officials maintain fallout shelters
and private contingency plans to evacuate their
families in the event of a Russian nuclear
strike―even in today's post-Cold War era of
U.S.-Russian partnership? The frightening answer
lies within the pages of War Scare, a terrifying
assessment of the prospect for nuclear holocaust
in our day. Written by Peter Vincent Pry, a
former CIA military analyst, War Scare provides
a history of our country's little-known brushes
with nuclear war and warns that, contrary to
popular opinion and the assurances of our
political leaders, the possibility of a Russian
attack still exists. Nuclear deterrence has been
the foundation of Western security for the last
50 years, but since the end of the Cold War,
Russian military doctrine has become more
destabilizing, and much more dangerous, than is
commonly believed.
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Poseidon:
Russia's New Doomsday Machine
by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry | Jun 14, 2018
"POSEIDON: Russia's New Doomsday Machine"
describes Moscow's unmanned automated drone
submarine designed to deliver a 100-megaton
warhead to inundate U.S. coasts with nuclear
tsunamis, leaving the most populous parts of
America radioactive wastelands. Is this the real
purpose of POSEIDON? What are the strategic
implications of this new doomsday weapon, the
latest in a series of Russian doomsday machines?
What are the implications of the marriage in
POSEIDON of Artificial Intelligence with the
most powerful nuclear weapon ever built? Author
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is one of the nation's
foremost experts on nuclear weapons and
strategy. Pry is Executive Director of the Task
Force on National and Homeland Security and of
the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both
Congressional Advisory Boards. He served as
Chief of Staff of the Congressional EMP
Commission, on the staffs of the Congressional
Strategic Posture Commission and the House Armed
Services Committee, and in the CIA. |
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