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Air Force Tells Americans They Aren’t Taking the EMP Threat Seriously Enough

August 16, 2019 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

Are you familiar with the idea of an EMP attack on America’s electrical grid? Have you considered the possible ramifications of such an attack on your standard of living? If you’re an average American, chances are that you haven’t heard of an EMP attack, and therefore haven’t prepared for it at all. A new study […]

When the Lights Go Down in the City

July 16, 2019 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

Recent power outages in Manhattan served to remind everyone of what losing electricity in a high-density city means. The NY Post reported: Power outages struck much of Manhattan for five hours Saturday evening, plunging subway stations, Broadway theaters and skyscrapers in the heart of the Big Apple into darkness on the 42nd anniversary — nearly […]

One Solid EMP Zapping Short Circuits Digital Payments

May 28, 2019 By Richard C. Young

Steven Melendez at The Wall Street Journal explains the ever increasing reliance of people around the world on electronic payments. The convenience is obvious, but one solid EMP zapping would short circuit digital payments in a snap. If you abandon cash, there’s no recourse in the event of an outage. Melendez writes: As more people […]

What is America Doing to Protect Its Grid from EMP and Other Threats?

April 8, 2019 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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?

April 1, 2019 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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?

March 29, 2019 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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

January 25, 2019 By Richard C. Young

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

November 18, 2015 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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

January 26, 2015 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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

February 5, 2014 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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 […]

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