It won't be ready until 2020.
Amid warnings that North Korea and Iran have plans to take out parts of the U.S. electric grid through a cyber attack or atmospheric nuclear blast, the Pentagon is taking steps to both protect the nation's communications and power lifeline.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has charged BAE Systems to map a system that can detect a cyber attack and gin up an alternative communications network for military and civilian use if the grid is fried, according to Defense Systems, the online newsletter.
Former CIA Director James Woolsey has been warning for years that the grid is extremely vulnerable, and recently the Pentagon and some states have taken the warning seriously. Woolsey and former EMP Commission chief of staff Peter Vincent Pry have pointed a finger at North Korea, which is now threatening the U.S.
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While this is not a bad idea it's NOT going to happen overnight.....or even over the next decade. The US should have been upgrading the power grid for the past two decades.
ReplyDeleteBecause EVERY SINGLE TRANSFORMER in America is a failure waiting to happen if an EMP event....natural or manmade....happens. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. A LOT of other infrastructure is sensitive to the kilovolt level surge that could occur. So while it's not a bad idea history.....if any....could record it as an episode
of closing the barn door after the horse has escaped.
e EVERY SINGLE TRANSFORMER in America is a failure waiting to happen if an EMP event
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What if the EMP threat is from the satellites they already have in orbit?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wnd.com/2016/04/emp-alert-2-n-korean-satellites-now-orbit-over-u-s/
KMS 3-2 - NORAD 39026
KMS-4 NORAD 41332
There are several websites where you can track them.
Great find and thanks. https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2017/04/2-n-korean-satellites-now-orbit-over-us.html
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