Follow the money. $10-20 billion based on a hypothetical scenario based on the 1962 Starfish Prime event. Supported by Department of Energy (that really adds credibility).
I worked with hypothetical EMP attacks starting in 1976 and continued with nuclear matters through the next 30 years. This included work with Defense Nuclear Agency, Defense Communications Agency, development of the Red Integrated Strategic Offensive Plan (RISOP), Connectivity Studies as a defense contractor, Comparative Post-War Recovery Study, etc. etc. So I do consider myself an expert. I have an engineering PhD. I left Department of Energy only two years ago when true scientific thought disappeared. Who is John Galt - he might be me.
I don’t think he’s full of shit, I know he’s full of shit.
In the government contracting business DOE was where you went for never ending funding. It seems even more true today.
Why?
Perhaps you can answer a question I have had about an EMP attack:
We have deep underground warehouse complexes, such as SubTerra and SubTropolis in the KC MO area and others in the WV region. It has seemed to me that utilities/factories could store replacement components, even transformers, down there that would protected. Those cave warehouse systems are huge. I have read that in just one of them manufacturers already store 10% of our processed non-fresh food supply. I have also read that DOD uses space in these complexes.
Do you know if anyone is storing components and vital infrastructural parts in such places?