China Can 'Take Out the Entire U.S.' This Way, Lawmaker Warns
Story by Thomas Kika • 11h ago
Texas state Senator Bob Hall on Sunday said that "five or six" balloons like the one spotted flying over American airspace last month could pose a major threat to the United States. Hall is a Republican lawmaker first elected to the Texas state Senate in 2014. He also previously served in the U.S. Air Force, reaching the rank of captain and working in the Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC).
Hall made an appearance on Fox News on Sunday and spoke about the potential threats posed to the U.S. by balloons like the Chinese one that was shot down three weeks ago over the Atlantic Ocean. As the state senator explained, such balloons have a history in nuclear testing and could still be significant threats. While a few of them could "take out" the entire country, he also said that just one could still have a disastrous effect on the country's infrastructure.
"It's a real threat," Hall said. "The first high-altitude nuclear test was done using a weather balloon to determine its efficacy. We know it's been in the arsenal of our enemies for quite a while. While a balloon wouldn't be quite as effective as a rocket that carried it higher, probably five or six would be enough to take out the entire United States. But just one would be so catastrophic that there is a possibility it could bring down the rest of the power grid by itself by just the nature of the grid depending on each other."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...d=hpmsn&cvid=8cc71d9606134eec8e34be889c30df8c
Story by Thomas Kika • 11h ago
Texas state Senator Bob Hall on Sunday said that "five or six" balloons like the one spotted flying over American airspace last month could pose a major threat to the United States. Hall is a Republican lawmaker first elected to the Texas state Senate in 2014. He also previously served in the U.S. Air Force, reaching the rank of captain and working in the Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC).
Hall made an appearance on Fox News on Sunday and spoke about the potential threats posed to the U.S. by balloons like the Chinese one that was shot down three weeks ago over the Atlantic Ocean. As the state senator explained, such balloons have a history in nuclear testing and could still be significant threats. While a few of them could "take out" the entire country, he also said that just one could still have a disastrous effect on the country's infrastructure.
"It's a real threat," Hall said. "The first high-altitude nuclear test was done using a weather balloon to determine its efficacy. We know it's been in the arsenal of our enemies for quite a while. While a balloon wouldn't be quite as effective as a rocket that carried it higher, probably five or six would be enough to take out the entire United States. But just one would be so catastrophic that there is a possibility it could bring down the rest of the power grid by itself by just the nature of the grid depending on each other."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...d=hpmsn&cvid=8cc71d9606134eec8e34be889c30df8c