[FairOpinion]

It sounds like a plausible scenario. I think with that scenario, when they go back, they may not even be able to tell that it wasn't a malfunction but a deliberate act, which started it all.

Back to the question that why don't we have more safeguards, that actually work?

[null and void]

Back to the question that why don't we have more safeguards, that actually work?

They DID work. Not a single generator got fried. Power will be back up in HOURS. A fried generator takes MONTHS to fix.

Saying the safegards didn't work is a bit like saying the airbags caused the collision...

[ThirdMate]

It just goes to show you that all systems are vunerable. Some congresscritter was calling the other day for SAM countermeasures on all civilian airliners, for who knows how many billion dollars.
I believe civil defense and homeland security is a pointless waste, far better to go get the bastards over there in such a way that those that remain alive are incapacitated with fear.