| "New York Times reporter William J. Broad recently pooh-poohed concerns about U.S. vulnerability to an electromagnetic pulse attack (EMP). It is the stuff of "science fiction," he implied. Along the way, he gets key facts wrong and omits many others that refute this view. The Huffington Post printed the reality: "Five bipartisan commissions and independent U.S. government studies have all reached the same conclusion: EMP is a threat to our critical infrastructure and the American people.""Broad suggests that it would take "billions" to safeguard the nation from EMP. This is untrue. Significant EMP protection can be had for about $200 million. That's what it would take to harden the key transformers servicing our most populous metropolitan areas. This relatively minor investment could save millions of American." A continuous stream of mis-information like Broad's, confuses Americans. |
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