[Paridel]

Underground fiber optics wouldn't really help us as much as you would think.

In the aftermath of a EMP what would prevent you from connecting to free republic would certainly be the lack of power from damage to our power grid. I'm not really afraid of that occurring, but fiber connecting the different communications systems would be useless without power and, more to the point, working communication systems to connect to the fiber.

As far as military communication that would probably be done with wide-band radio transmission.

-paridel

[Radioactive]

The problem is the GRID.

We need to rethink our power generation system.

I would like to see a decentralized power grid....having many small power stations....and by the way....the NAVY has a great system of power generation. All those nuclear submarines and nuclear ships have a great system...we should have baby nukes all oever the country...that way any attack on any one area would not make a big impact.