EMP 

LETTER: Don’t ignore terrorist EMP threat

We know from U.S. studies that are now declassified that terrorists with simple ballistic missiles or even a dirty bomb can launch such missiles off our shores — say from a freighter — in a relatively low-earth orbit against us and bring us back to the Stone Age for weeks, months or years. This is not hyperbole on my part. It is reality, especially if you count our nation-state adversaries.

Don’t believe me? Take a look at the Subcommittee Report on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security released on March 8, 2008. Senator Kyl, a leading Republican, noted the following in the summary: “The subject, as I said, is the electromagnetic pulse and its potential as a tool of terrorism.” He followed: “That an EMP attack could potentially shock, damage, or even destroy our electrical systems is indeed possible.” The CIA indicated that nuclear material had been stolen by possible terrorists in the latter stages of the Soviet Union.