As hearings before the House Armed Services Committee and a new "Backgrounder" by Jack Spencer of the Heritage Foundation entitled "America's Vulnerability to a Different Nuclear Threat: An Electromagnetic Pulse, " makes clear, a rogue state or other enemy could inflict grievous harm on an advanced society like America's by exploding a nuclear weapon high above the United States.

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The idea that Atlantis was also an advanced, utopian society may also be an embellishment.

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At the risk of stating the obvious, no nation can afford its people the quality of life, let alone the economic and security benefits, associated with being an advanced 21st Century society without assured and cost-effective access to energy.

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Failure to take such steps could mean that a single North Korean or Iranian missile, possibly launched from a ship off the coast of the United States, could instantly transform this country from an advanced 21st Century society to an 18th Century one.

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We must not lose sight, however, of the larger problem: The Millennium Bug's potential for devastation of an advanced, computer-dependent society like that of the late 20th Century United States is not confined to its national security apparatuses.

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This article is the third in an ongoing series of country focus pieces where the cashless society utopia has actually advanced the cause of financial repression.

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