After President Trump’s executive order requesting a study of the country’s vulnerability to an EMP attack, Gregory Kiley, a former Air Force officer and member of the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee has written an op-ed in The Hill both applauding President Trump for highlighting the EMP threat, and outlining some of America’s […]
Can the Grid be Protected from Cascading Destruction?
Last week I wrote to you about President Trump’s executive order on preparing for an electromagnetic pulse attack. Here’s the ugly reality. The government needs to either privatize the nation’s electric grid or get to work securing it. The grid is woefully exposed to the risks of an EMP attack or a solar flare. Lloyds […]
Is an EMP Attack Imminent?
This week President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to identify the threats posed by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP)—believed to be potentially dangerous to critical infrastructure like the electric grid (understatement to be kind)—and find ways to guard against them. As you have read right here we’ve been sounding the alarm for years. […]
EMP Threat: Be Prepared
Originally posted on January 3, 2009. While talk of Armageddon may bring to mind tinfoil hats and the funny public service announcements of 1960’s, an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack is a real threat. The U.S. government commissioned an exhaustive report on the subject. The scariest scenario is known as a Scud-in-a-Bucket. The scenario goes like […]
EMP Attack: When the Lights go Out
Ted Koppel talks about his new book Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath, here:
Dead Zones in a Matter of Weeks
Originally posted June 19, 2013. Cities become dead zones in a matter of weeks after an EMP attack. That’s how Frank Gaffney, President of the Center for Security Policy and former assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan describes it here to FoxNews: A large enough pulse (EMP) could destroy the electric grid, notably the […]
Terrorists Among U.S. Shooting the Lights Out
It took snipers 19 minutes to knock out 17 transformers last year at PG&E Corp.’s Metcalf, California transmission substation. The attack is “the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred,” said form Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman Jon Wellinghoff. He, along with FERC officials, the FBI and experts from the […]
Nukes, EMPs, and Asia
Two concerning stories have surfaced out of Asia in the past few weeks. To begin with, China put out stories in its state run newspapers that its submarine fleet is capable of launching nuclear weapons that can take out millions of Americans. This was predicted by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission last year. […]
Solar Storm Fired Directly at Earth Could Cause Geomagnetic Storm
The sun erupted on Tuesday afternoon at 1:24PM EDT sending a solar storm hurtling towards Earth at an estimated 2 million miles per hour. In the past, storms of this magnitude have caused mild geometric storms. NASA is warning that these magnetic storms could impact electronics and communication satellites. The storm is expected to take […]
Beware: Your Cell Phone Could be a Mobile Spy Station
Edward Snowden’s leaks have rocked the international community for the past two weeks and fired up a debate about U.S. government surveillance of citizens’ phone calls and internet browsing data. Cell phones have long been the subject of hacking, and in recent weeks with the NSA accusations coming to light, methods of protecting your privacy […]
