[Infowarrior] - Report: Threat to US of Electromagnetic Pulse Attack

[Richard Forno]

Threat to US of Electromagnetic Pulse Attack   (208pages)
http://www.empcommission.org/docs/A2473-EMP_Commission-7MB.pdf


The EMP Commission was established pursuant to title XIV of the Floyd  
D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (as  
enacted into law by Public Law 106-398; 114 Stat. 1654A-345). Duties  
of the EMP Commission include assessing:

    1. the nature and magnitude of potential high-altitude EMP threats  
to the United States from all potentially hostile states or non-state  
actors that have or could acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic  
missiles enabling them to perform a high-altitude EMP attack against  
the United States within the next 15 years;
    2. the vulnerability of United States military and especially  
civilian systems to an EMP attack, giving special attention to  
vulnerability of the civilian infrastructure as a matter of emergency  
preparedness;
    3. the capability of the United States to repair and recover from  
damage inflicted on United States military and civilian systems by an  
EMP attack; and
    4. the feasibility and cost of hardening select military and  
civilian systems against EMP attack.

The Commission is charged with identifying any steps it believes  
should be taken by the United States to better protect its military  
and civilian systems from EMP attack.