GAO Report: US Still Not Prepared for Possible EMP Attack

Cybercast News Service ^ | May 3, 2016 | 4:20 PM EDT | Barbara Hollingsworth

[Olog-hai]

Two weeks after North Korea threatened to launch nuclear strikes against the U.S., the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the federal government has still not implemented all of the recommendations made eight years ago to prevent catastrophic blackouts caused by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.

The recommendations were made in 2008 by the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electro-Magnetic Pulse Attack (EMP Commission).

Although the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Energy (DOE) have taken actions to prepare against an EMP attack, they “have not established a coordinated approach to identifying and implementing key risk management activities to address EMP risks,” concluded a March 24 GAO report. …

[T-Bone Texan]

I read on my survivalist website that the last non-fuel injected vehicle made in America was the 1989 GMC Jimmy, diesel.

Those people have been wrong before, though.

[T-Bone Texan]

Bill Forstchen, in “One Second After”, posited that the population of the United States would go from 300 million to 30 million in one year, and lays out why.

[palmer]

Doesn't have to come from an EMP either. The sun can do us in in one burst....

The sun creates sub-one-herz magnetic field fluctuations. That only affects long lines. Ordinary surge protectors will protect everything plugged in even the surge gets that far (it will blow out transformers before it gets to the local grid). EMP is a different animal, extremely high frequency and potentially high energy so a very short piece of metal or semiconductor can pick up the energy.

[backwoods-engineer]

I read Forschten’s books.