Tag: EMP

EMP Attack: When the Lights go Out

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

Ted Koppel talks about his new book Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath, here:

Secret Congressional Report: Power Grid Hacked?

The Editors - June 26, 2015

According to a secret Congressional report that has only recently been disclosed, the American power grid is under constant threat of being hacked by...

VIDEO: Navy Railgun Catapult in Action

The Editors - June 22, 2015

Watch the Navy's new electromagnetic railgun catapult skip a 4-ton cart off the ocean like a flat rock off a pond.

Engines of Extinction

Richard C. Young - April 7, 2015

August Cole is the director of the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare Project. Here, writing in War On The Rocks, Mr. Cole outlines...

Dead Zones in a Matter of Weeks

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

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...

Trojan Virus: America’s Infrastructure at Risk

The Editors - November 7, 2014

A malicious Trojan horse virus has been inserted into systems controlling America's infrastructure. ABC reports that the systems were penetrated by hackers backed by...

Is Your Data Protected from EMP?

The Editors - September 21, 2014

In the past week the Sun showered the Earth with two storms of charged plasma (big storms like these are known as coronal mass...

Iran, Syria, North Korea—or Metcalf Station, San Jose?

Richard C. Young - February 10, 2014

Which location on the globe gives you the most reason to miss a night’s sleep? For me, it’s the Metcalf PG&E station near San...

Terrorists Among U.S. Shooting the Lights Out

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

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...