EMP security

GOP PLATFORM VOWS TO PROTECT U.S. FROM A FANTASY WEAPON

When the Big One comes, will we be ready? The Cold War, which spanned from the end of World War II in 1945 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, threatened apocalypse at every false move. As two nuclear-armed superpowers stared each other down, people somehow lived their lives, knowing that, should things go south, they were just an hour away from an armageddon the world had never seen before. The Cold War ended, and the power dynamics between the relevant nations changed, but the nuclear arsenals still exist, and they still shape how nations interact on the global stage.

The Republican Party just added a plank to their 2016 platform warning against electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons. Here is that plank, in full:

Protection against an Electromagnetic Pulse
A single nuclear weapon detonated at high altitude over this country would collapse our electrical grid and other critical infrastructure and endanger the lives of millions...