Preparedness, Awareness of EMP Danger is Insufficient to Protect U.S. at Present
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Think of it. No cell phones, iPads, computers, iPods – virtually every device that powers life as we know it – would be destroyed. Planes, trains, vehicles of all stripes – all would cease to function, their electrical systems fried.
EMP Cascade Effect - Areas Affected |
Terrorists, rogue states, China or Russia could launch an electro-magnetic pulse attack that would collapse critical civilian infrastructures in the United States, warn two congressional commissions, the EMP Commission and the Strategic Posture Commission.
A single crude nuclear weapon delivered by an unsophisticated missile could destroy electric power, telecommunications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water across the continental United States.
Without these systems, our modern society would be thrown back into the 18th century.
President Reagan's science adviser and EMP Commission chairman, Dr. William R. Graham, has warned that a natural or nuclear EMP event could cause Fukushima-type meltdowns at all 108 nuclear reactors and widespread radioactive contamination across the United States.
The SHIELD Act (H.R. 668), currently before the House, needs to be passed this year. If it isn't, it may well be too late to protect the national electric grid, upon which the U.S. economy and the lives of 310 million Americans depend.
A Survey of EMP Preparedness Reveals Significant Shortfalls
TALKING POINTS
- 1While the ability of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to inflict catastrophic damage on U.S. infrastructure has been a known fact for decades, a survey of congressional, federal, state, local, and international measures to deal with the threat reveals more complacency than action.
- 2America—at all levels of governance—is unprepared for an EMP attack. Despite the clear recommendations of both the 2004 and 2008 EMP Commissions, as well as an official consensus among experts, U.S. government agencies have not moved their EMP-response planning beyond the theoretical stages.
- 3Initiatives are needed at all levels—from bilateral partnerships that focus on shared infrastructure to national leadership to state and local action.
- 4An EMP disaster is the catastrophe that should never happen. The means to address and mitigate the dangers to critical infrastructure are at hand. The United States needs a greater understanding of the danger—and the determination to act.
Contributing sources:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/08/before-the-lights-go-out-a-survey-of-emp-preparedness-reveals-significant-shortfalls
Protecting America from EMP attackhttp://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=332909#ixzz1V9RUa94O
Electromagnetic pulse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... and in some cases have published, a number of hypothetical EMP attack scenarios. ...
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I have the knowledge, ability, plans to build a ground level EMP device that could knock out New York City for under $400. It’s not rocket science.
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