Not credible.
Lots of this was covered in a Congressional report about a decade ago.
This seems to be just a rehash by some lobbyist group.
Anybody know anything about the group that sponsored this?
You are mistaken.
U.S. Gov’t and fellow power infrastructure peers are preparing for impending EMP-CME incident.
PREPARE.
12/6/2018 & 12/7/2018: EMP SIG Workshop & Summit
posted Nov 4, 2018, 11:51 AM by N M [ updated Nov 4, 2018, 12:11 PM ]
Please Attend DHS FBI InfraGard EMP SIG Workshop & Summit
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE
WHY: It is vital that the nation critical infrastructures are resilient and prepared for major disasters
WHAT: WORKSHOP on Thursday, December 6 from 8:30am to 5:00pm
Senator Ron Johnson, Chairman of Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs will be our kickoff speaker at 9:00 am.
Major David Stuckenberg will present the 2018 Air University Electromagnetic Defense Task Force Report (Spartacus) and then we will discuss actions based on this valuable information.
Work on the second version of InfraGard’s Action Guide, Powering Through: From Fragile Infrastructures to Community Resilience will be discussed by the authors.
A utility industry panel is planned. Ambassador Hank Cooper will discuss the Lake Wylie Project, which is a hydroelectric cranking path to blackstart a nuclear power plant and help the critical infrastructure be resilient.
We will then brainstorm actions needed to strengthen Critical Infrastructure resilience.
RSVP for the WORKSHOP is by invitation ONLY. InfraGard members - please get RSVP link from email or internal post.
WHAT: SUMMIT on Friday, December 7 from 8:30am to 5:00pm
Undersecretary Bill Bryan, DHS Science and Technology will be the kickoff speaker for the Summit.
Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) House Armed Services Committee, Congressman David Price (D-NC), House Intelligence Committee and David Bowdich, FBI Deputy Director are invited to join us Tom Popik and Jordan Kearns will discuss an EMP and GMD cost study carried out by the Foundation for Resilient Societies and Bill Harris discussing funding methods.
Panels on energy emergencies with Paul Stockton, former assistant secretary of defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs, addressing Emergency Response Orders and State Actions for consequence management are planned.
WHERE: National Capitol Visitors’ Center Congressional Auditorium, Washington, DC
Maybe N Korea and Iran getting closer to having deliverable icbms and nukes is worrying them.
“Anybody know anything about the group that sponsored this? “
I don’t even know their name.
But you can bet they have found a way to get paid from it.
There is no plausible man-made EMP that would take out the US, or the entire east coast for that matter.
Hundreds of megatons at 300 miles up? Maybe.
But nobody has bombs that big and very, very few have the lift capacity to get it that high. Certainly not the Norklandians or Iran.
But an enormous solar flare could do it. I stress enormous.
That they want more money?
This seems to be just a rehash by some lobbyist group.
Anybody know anything about the group that sponsored this?
United States Air Force Air University and the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education. Citing figures from the Union of Concerned Scientists, the report:
These people are military...And they are likely spot on...
We need a wall and we need to harden the grid against cyber induced EMPs and Solar induced EMPS...