Countering EMPs
"High Frontier Foundation"
>Major hardening of our strategic
retaliatory systems
– ICBMs and SLBMs, Strategic Bombers,
and Supporting BMC3 systems
– But not civil critical infrastructure
• Associated classification constraints
kept info closeted—at least to most
• Key 2008 release by Congressionally
appointed EMP Commission (Reports
on High Frontier webpage)
– Included Soviet testing info, which was in
some ways more revealing than our own
• Key Bottom Line Conclusion:
– EMP from a single burst 200-300 miles over
the US could shut down most if not all US
electrical systems, possibly indefinitely
– Return US just-in-time economy to 19th
century operations without agrarian support
http://highfrontier.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SC-Infragard-141022.pdf