The press also ignored the launching of the EMP Caucus and the SHIELD Act.
And the EMP Caucus rolled out a newly minted bill--the SHIELD Act (HR 668).
Whereas they were always a midsize company that was kind of an elephant hunter in the EMP business.
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In light of this potentially catastrophic scenario, what does the EMP Commission suggest?
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The Times reports that some of those who dismiss the EMP threat claim that missile defense is the answer.
The press remains largely in the dark or indifferent to the EMP threat.
The United States has several simulators that could be modified to emulate the EMP effect of a high-altitude nuclear blast.
The Graham panel has come to be known as the EMP Threat Commission and it has developed a particularly worrisome scenario.
Organized by a new group, EMPAct America ( www.empactamerica.net), this meeting represents the best opportunity to date to translate the warnings of the EMP Threat Commission into action.
The EMP Threat Commission recommends steps be taken urgently to reduce that vulnerability by protecting electrical, water, telecommunications and other infrastructures against the crippling effects of electromagnetic pulse.
In 2000, concern about the EMP threat in the US caused Congress to mandate the formation of a commission comprised of the leading US experts on the issue to study it.
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This panel, made up of many of the nation's most experienced and eminent scientists, has produced several reports that should have jarred our leaders into action on the EMP threat long before now.
Dr. Graham formerly served as President Reagan's Science Advisor and has in recent years chaired the congressionally mandated Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (better known as the EMP Commission).
Thus, if key components of the grid were to be subjected to one or more pulses of electromagnetic energy, the EMP Commission concluded that at least some of them would be susceptible to extensive damage or destruction.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is President of EMPact America, Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, and served on the staffs of the EMP Commission, the Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee and the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Compass EMP Fund has three mutual funds, but talking about the Alternative Strategies Fund in particular, there are no traditional-what we call long-only-stock or bonds in the portfolio.
Protecting the United States against the evolving EMP threat will require a mix of active defenses, passive defenses, and policy changes.
Yet the Holdren-Beddington article is based on data and studies from the Congressional EMP Commission--that warns about both natural and nuclear EMP threats.
The Compass EMP Alternative Strategies Fund has no traditional US stock, international stock, or US bond that you sit and allocate hoping to make money.
Those of us who have dedicated careers to protecting the American people from an EMP catastrophe know that no actual technical work is yet underway to physically protect the national power grid from EMP.
What keeps national security experts who study this up at night, is the fact that an EMP blast has the capability to wreak havoc on critical infrastructure such as telecommunications, computer systems, and even the power grid.
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Better yet, a policy to retaliate combined with other actions--such as installing active defenses, increased passive defenses, and assuring military survivability--would decrease the likelihood of an EMP attack against the United States because such measures would make a strike less likely to succeed.
The threat of an EMP attack is hardly the only reason for ensuring that ballistic missiles cannot be used to do harm to this country, but it is a particularly compelling one.
Moreover, because protecting America's entire civilian electronic infrastructure is not fiscally feasible and because a ballistic missile is the most likely delivery vehicle for an EMP attack, the most prudent method to protect America is a missile defense system that could destroy a ballistic missile before it reaches U.S. airspace.
The threat of an EMP attack was not taken seriously by US military planners during the Cold War because they were concerned with the primary Soviet threat to annihilate the US and its allies by launching several thousand nuclear warheads against them.
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If we don't take corrective action, cyber attacks in the future could be as devastating as the "man-caused disaster" of an EMP attack or the naturally occurring variant.
Today, the best that can be said is that the extent and duration of future EMP-induced blackouts would depend on whether the emitter generates a small or large pulse, and whether it is detonated at ground-level or from high altitudes.
That Commission published reports in 2004 and 2008, and the reports should be mandatory reading for anyone concerned about the dangers of an EMP.
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For example, on February 15 (the same day as a worrisome solar flare that fortunately missed the Earth) a new Congressional Caucus convened for the first time--the Congressional Caucus on EMP.
How big is the threat of an EMP?
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