Public: Non-Fiction
A Call to Action for America by the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and the Secure the Grid Coalition
Guilty Knowledge: What the US Government Knows about the Vulnerability of the Electric Grid, But Refuses to Fix by Center for Security Policy
Real Risk Management For the Electrical Grid by Jim LeBlanc
The Long Sunday by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath by Ted Koppel
Survival Theory: A Preparedness Guide by Jonathan Hollerman
A Nation Foresaken: EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe by Michael Maloof
Public: Fiction
One Second After by William R. Forstchen
The Final Day by William R. Forstchen
Patriarch Run by Benjamin Dancer
Latest Must Read
Commission Reports
2017: EMP Commission Report (coming 2018)
Elected Officials
Blackout Wars: State Initiatives To Achieve Preparedness Against An Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Catastrophe by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
Triple Threat Power Grid Exercise: High Impact Threats Workshop and Tabletop Exercises Examining Extreme Space Weather, EMP and Cyber Attacks by Charles Manto et al.
Powering Through Fragile Infrastructures to Community Resilience by Mary Lasky
Tech Professionals
2010 Metatec: HEMP & Impact on U.S. Power Grid (prepared for Oak Ridge National Laboratories)
2016 Office of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters – Nuclear Matters Handbook: Nuclear Survivability (see hardening comments)
2016 Markus Nyffeler and Armin W. Kaelin: EMP-Hardened Photovoltaic Generators: A Possible Emergency Power Solution for Critical Infrastructure? (research article via ECE at the University of New Mexico)
IEEE articles specific to cyber security via LA Grid Coalition’s site (must be member of IEEE to read full articles)
IEEE articles specific to geomagnetic disturbances via LA Grid Coalition’s site (must be member of IEEE to read full articles)
E-Pro Handbooks by the Electric Infrastructure Security (EIS) Council
Technical Misc.
Additional Resources
2005 U.S. Senate Subcomittee: Testimony of Dr Pry on Foreign Views of EMP Attack
2010 Space Review: Rebuttal to The EMP Threat – Fact, Fiction, and Response
2012 National Intelligence Council: Global Trends 2030 (see pg. xi)
2013 Llyod’s of London: Solar Storm Risk to the North American Electric Grid
2014 U.S. Global Change Research Program: National Climate Assessment Report
2014 Asymmetric Threat Symposium VIII: Cyber, Electronic Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Strategies
2015 Department of Homeland Security: EMP Risks and Mitigation
2015 Secure the Grid: Rebuttal to Edison Electric Institute’s EMP – Myth vs. Fact
2017 Department of Energy: Transforming the Nation’s Electricity System: Second Installment
2017 Department of Energy: EMP Resilience Action Plan
2017 Dams and Energy Sectors Interdependency Study: An Update to the 2011 Study
2017 FERC: Testimony of Thomas Popik at Reliability Technical Conference
2017 U.S. House of Representatives: Statement of Dr. William Graham and Dr. Peter Pry on North Korea Nuclear EMP Attack: An Existential Threat