Expert: Chinese Balloon Could Be Dry Run to Deliver Nuclear EMP Device

The high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon that traveled across the U.S. could be a dry run to deliver a nuclear device that would wipe out America’s power grid, according to a leading expert of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) devices.

“China’s recent balloon flyover of the United States is clearly a provocative and aggressive act,” retired Air Force Maj. David Stuckenberg, who once led the Defense Department’s EMP Task Force, told the Washington Examiner, according to Newsmax. “It was most likely a type of dry run meant to send a strategic message to the USA. We must not take this for granted.”

Stuckenberg, founder and chairman of the American Leadership & Policy Foundation, wrote in a 2015 paper that high-altitude balloons would be the easiest to resource, equip, and launch a nuclear device in the atmosphere that would act as an EMP and dismantle the U.S. power grid.

Specifically, an EMP is a brief burst of electromagnetic energy causing interference that can disrupt communications, fry electronics, and, at higher outputs, even damage such things as planes and buildings.

{Matzav.com}