President Trump and Congress plan a defense against EMP attacks
Written by Leslie Eastman
Defenses being prepared for man-made e-bombs and solar storms.
There has been a fascinating policy development that has flown under the radar, as the current news cycle has been flooded with tax news and United Nations drama.
The U.S. Congress has reactivated a committee that was set to disband, which was initially created to devise countermeasures against a possible electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack by North Korea.
An electromagnetic pulse attack, or EMP, from a nuclear weapon detonated in the atmosphere could leave only about 30 million Americans alive and a “basically rural economy” where survivors would be forced to produce their own food and other goods, William Graham, chairman of the aptly named Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack, told a House committee in 2008.
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