How could a catastrophic blackout happen? Threats to the electric power grid are posed by cyber attack, sabotage, a geomagnetic super-storm, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from the high-altitude detonation of a nuclear weapon.īlackout Wars warns that terrorists and rogue states are developing a revolutionary new military strategy that could exploit all of these threats in combination, including exploiting the opportunity of severe weather or a geo-storm, to collapse the national electric grid and all the critical infrastructures. Communications, transportation, industry, business and finance–all of the critical infrastructures that support modern civilization and the lives of the American people would be paralyzed by collapse of the electric power grid. In such a nightmare blackout, the entire population of the United States could be at risk. Some Americans have experienced more protracted local and regional blackouts, as in the aftermaths of Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina, and may be better able to imagine the consequences of a nationwide blackout lasting months or years, that plunges the entire United States into the dark. Most Americans have experienced temporary blackouts, and regard them as merely an inconvenience. James Woolsey.īlackout Wars is about the historically unprecedented threat to our electronic civilization from its dependence on the electric power grid. Graham and President Bill Clinton’s Director of Central Intelligence Ambassador R. Rather than providing my personal review of this important book, please find below the Forward to Blackout Wars, provided by two other colleagues engaged in this fight: President Ronald Reagan’s Science Advisor Dr. Books can be purchased from (CreateSpace ordering helpline 1-86) or from. They are important examples for others to understand and include in their own initiatives. Given Washington’s failure to address this existential threat, “grass roots” Americans are being aroused by the Peter’s persistent efforts - and those of others - and these Americans are making a difference.īlackout Wars is about several of these important efforts that have taken root in a number of states where Americans are no longer waiting on Washington, but are initiating efforts on their own authority to counter this threat to all we hold dear. Without electricity, Americans would return to a 19 th century existence without the benefits of that agrarian society - and most Americans could die within a year. It should be understood that that the challenge is almost entirely political - technical solutions have been known for a half century and anticipated costs are relatively minor.īut our Washington leaders have collectively failed in their sworn duty under the Constitution to “provide for the common defense” against this existential threat to all Americans. This threat can - now, today - be caused by nation states (e.g., Russia or China), rogue states (e.g., North Korea or Iran), or their surrogate terrorists and surely will one day result from natural causes - i.e., an intense solar storm.īlackout Wars summarizes key bottom lines from Peter’s previous EMP Task Force books ( Electronic Armageddon and Apocalypse Unknown) and highlights the initiatives in several battleground states where “grass roots” initiatives are making a difference, including contributions of the associated key players. I recommend it to all who are interested in understanding what can be done in the urgent fight to protect the American people against the existential threat posed by possible - increasingly likely - attacks on our currently vulnerable electric power grid. Peter Vincent Pry has written an important book published by the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, which he leads as Executive Director. Communications, transportation, industry, business and finance - all of the critical infrastructures that support modern civilization and the lives of the American people would be paralyzed by collapse of the electric power grid. he entire population of the United States could be at risk.
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