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US must heed electronic terror threat
Businessman, August 14, 2009
A New York businessman is sounding the alarm on a potential terror threat that he says has not gotten the attention or action it deserves, despite a congressional committee's finding that the country grows more vulnerable to it by the day.
Henry Schwartz, chairman of Steuben Foods and Elmhurst Dairy, is so concerned that an enemy's electromagnetic pulse attack could paralyze America that he will gather a group of scientists, congressmen and others for a conference next month on how the country should protect itself.
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Falls conference to examine threat from potentially cataclysmic ‘pulse’
The Buffalo news, July 29, 2009,
"The nation’s enemies have set their sights on your cell phones, personal computers and the hundreds of thousands of transmission lines that make up the national power grid."
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Biz exec wants word out on 'EMPs'
Buffalo Business First of, July 29, 2009
"Trying not to sound like a fear-monger or something out of Ian Fleming or Tom Clancy novel, Steuben Foods chairman and founder Henry Schwartz has started a grassroots group aimed at alternately warning and educating Americans about what he considers to be serious threats against national security."
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Looming electromagnetic-pulses threat
Collins met with EMPACT America Tuesday
WIVB.com, July 29, 2009
"BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Emergency responders call it a looming threat that most people have no idea even exists. Erie County Executive Chris Collins and others met with EMPACT America Tuesday to talk about Electromagnetic pulses, or EMPs. It's a burst of energy that can be triggered by enemy missiles."
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Electric Grid Still Vulnerable to Electromagnetic Weaponry
Science News' Science & the Public Blog, July 27, 2009,
"Electromagnetic pulse is hardly a household term. But perhaps it should be. Every computer we buy, every system we turn over to computer control, every device that relies on electronic components — all cars, TVs and phones, for instance — makes us more vulnerable to such a high-energy rain of electrons."
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An avoidable catastrophe
Electrical infrastructure not 'hardened' against pulse attack
Washington Times, July 27 2009
"Amidst all the congressional to-ing and fro-ing associated with the president's controversial health care, cap-and-trade and "hate crimes" initiatives, it would be easy for most legislators to overlook a hearing the House Homeland Security Committee has scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. "
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James Carafano: An EMP attack: Thinking the unthinkable
Examiner Columnist, July 27, 2009
"When the 9/11 Commission issued its report, it complained that federal agencies had a colossal "failure of imagination." Nobody could accuse Newt Gingrich from suffering that shortfall.
When he delivered a major address on national security last week, the former Speaker of the House went after Defense Secretary Robert Gates for planning for the future the Pentagon wants, rather than dealing with the many serious problems it may actually face. Gingrich mentioned one challenge that many find too terrible to contemplate -- which is why our government should spend a lot more time doing exactly that."
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Protect everyone, not just president, from EMP attack
www.thehill.com, July 23, 2009
"Americans remain outraged by our federal government’s actions before and after Hurricane Katrina that inflicted $300 billion in damage to the Gulf Coast. Did you know that the federal government is acting to protect the president, but doing little or nothing to prevent $1 trillion to $2 trillion in damage from a known threat with the largest geographic footprint of any natural disaster according to the National Academies of Science? Sadly, that is the current reality."
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EMP: A Poorly Understood Threat
www.energypulse.net , July 21, 2009
"Grid security managers are experiencing growing concern over cyber security while another serious threat, electromagnetic pulse (EMP), has received very little attention. An electromagnetic pulse attack can have a devastating impact on the grid, rendering it useless perhaps for many years."
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U.S. Lacks Defense From Nuclear Pulse, Official Says (Update1)
Bloomberg, July 21, 2009
"The U.S. must do more to protect itself against blackouts and damaged electronics that would be caused by a nuclear bomb blast, said the head of a panel established by Congress to monitor the threat. "
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NOAA: Mild Solar Storm Season Predicted
NOAA, May 8, 2009
"Although its peak is still four years away, a new active period of Earth-threatening solar storms will be the weakest since 1928, predicts an international panel of experts led by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center and funded by NASA. Despite the prediction, Earth is still vulnerable to a severe solar storm."
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German agency says Iran years away from atom bomb
Reuters, Jul 15, 2009
"BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency said on Wednesday that Iran was probably years away from being able to produce and test an atomic bomb."
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The EMP Threat
The Wall Street Journal, AUGUST 9, 2008
"Imagine you're a terrorist with a single nuclear weapon. You could wipe out the U.S. city of your choice, or you could decide to destroy the infrastructure of the entire U.S. economy and leave millions of Americans to die of starvation or want of medical care."
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Missile Defense Takes Off
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY, December 03, 2008
"Strategic Defense: The Air Force's airborne laser program passes yet another test, proving "unproven" missile defense once again. The question is not whether we can get it to work, but whether we can afford not to."
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