Thank you @frankgaffney for the timely insight on the courage exhibited by @realDonaldTrump in ditching the flawed INF treaty, which has constrained us, enabled the Russians to cheat and ignored the Chinese development of Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces. https://t.co/Ih3IE1sniN
Live in New England? You should ABSOLUTELY attend this summit! It will be an eye-opening event that will equip you with knowledge about threats to our MOST CRITICAL infrastructure - the electric grid - and the ongoing effort to protect it!
Much thanks to @Heritage for their excellent event yesterday - Protecting the Grid: Options for Innovations and Strategic Actions. We wish all our elected leaders were as concerned about the grid as attendee and event speaker @SenRonJohnson Watch here! https://t.co/UNWgyJxNX3
This momentary power outage amused baseball fans but should be a wake up call for us all. America's enemies are working hard to shut the lights off for a LONG time. They know it's "Game Over" for America without electricity, so we MUST Secure the Grid!
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Save the EMP Commission!
America: The DOD and HASC has failed you!
At a time when nuclear-capable North Korea threatens the United States daily with the prospect of a high altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack (which they have been rehearsing for much of the past decade), and as the sun continues to produce technology-killing geomagnetic solar storms, and as both state and non-state sponsored hackers continue to penetrate our grid with malicious and potentially devastating cyber attacks, the House Armed Services Committee and Department of Defense have, as of July 31, 2017, dismantled the only honest arbiter working to get the dysfunctional federal government to address these growing threats – The Congressional EMP Commission.
To learn more about this critical failure of the DOD and HASC and what YOU can do to help, please visit the “Take Action!” tab and download the “Save the EMP Commission” PDF.
Attacks on Electrical Substations
Attacks on electrical substations have underscored one of America’s most serious vulnerabilities: If the power goes off and stays off, our Nation and the vast majority of its population will cease to exist.
In addition to natural causes (geomagnetic disturbances (GMD) a.k.a. solar storms), the grid can be seriously disrupted for prolonged periods by four man-made events, including physical assaults, radio frequency devices (RFD), cyberattack, and high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP). Such events could disrupt and/or destroy outright key parts of the power grid, prompting the cascading collapse of substations and effecting every one of the other 15 critical infrastructures that assure the availability of water, food, medicine, finance, transportation, telecommunications, etc., possibly for years.
The good news is that we know how to fix the electric grid’s vulnerabilities. Known and relatively affordable technologies can protect our power grid and the 21st Century American economy, society and people that absolutely depend upon it.
Learn about the threat – and what you can do about it.
Our Nation’s 16 Critical Infrastructure Sectors are:
- Energy
- Defense Industrial Base
- Communications
- Healthcare & Public Health
- Emergency Services
- Water & Wastewater Systems
- Transportation Systems
- Food & Agriculture
- Information Technology
- Financial Services
- Nuclear Reactors, Materials & Waste
- Chemical
- Commercial Facilities
- Critical Manufacturing
- Dams
- Government Facilities
These infrastructures are dependent on electricity and technology.
– Ted Koppel
