Source: National Geographic
The Common Sense Show
The following material is grim, very grim. Let me get the dramatics out of the way in the very beginning. If a nation-wide EMP attack ever takes place in America, given our present level of preparedness, it will prove to be the most cataclysmic event in human history.
This is an article that I did not want to write. However, it is an article which represents completely known information but is normally not available outside academic and government-sponsored conferences. I have synthesized and simplified much of the research in the hope of making the material understandable and useful to the general public.
Many authors who would write such an article would be immediately accused of fear-mongering. In this instance, I believe there is much to fear. Short of a 3-mile-wide asteroid landing in the ocean, I cannot think of a more devastating event than an EMP attack. If anything, the scenarios I present are on the very conservative side.
I strongly concur with my Congressman, Trent Franks, that an EMP attack is the most devastating event that our country could ever face. Congressman Franks represents a small group of Congressmen who have desperately been trying to attract attention to the possibility that a nation-wide EMP attack would prove more devastating than if a dozen of our cities were to be hit by a nuclear attack. America could mostly recover from the latter, but there might not be any recovery from a nationwide EMP attack.
This article is not an inventory of all things that could go wrong following an EMP attack, it is a cross-sectional view of events. Suffice it to say that there would be nobody who would be left untouched by an EMP attack.
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