THE DANGER OF EMP - AT 8:23 A.M. ET:  We are properly focused on a number of potentially catastrophic threats from Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan, and on the possibility of terror groups acquiring weapons of mass destruction.  However, there is another threat looming that may dwarf the others, and that is an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) attack on the United States.  It would involve, in a typical scenario, an an enemy firing a missile from a ship off our shores, and setting off a nuclear device high above the nation.  The EMP effect would essentially destroy our electronic and electric infrastructure, and send us back to a primitive form of civilization.

William D. Forstschen, who often co-authors with Newt Gingrich, has written a novel, "One Second After," that portrays what an EMP attack would do to the United States.  There is an excellent, informed review of the book at American Spectator by John C. Wohlstetter, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and proprietor of his own website, Letter from the Capitol.  The review is here, and should get any thinking person concerned...and angry that so little is being done about this severe threat.

May 21, 2009