Just one short-range nuclear missile, launched from a freighter off our coast, could make an EMP attack that would cause the collapse across the entire United States of all the critical infrastructures.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Nuclear storm warnings?

There has been minimal progress on the commitments to a new bomber, a replacement air-launched nuclear cruise missile, and possibly a new ICBM.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Mapping a National Security Failure: Ratification of the New START Treaty | Page: 18

The Homeland Security Committee will hear tomorrow that this unimaginable horror can be triggered by a scenario examined at length by the Commission on the EMP Threat - namely, a ship-launched, ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapon detonated outside the atmosphere high above the United States.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: An avoidable catastrophe