A newly
declassified report by the recently re-established Commission to Assess the Threat to the from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack warns that the threat posed by an EMP attack could jeopardize "modern civilization," return a lifestyle last seen in the 1800's and leave millions of people dead across the United States.
The executive report, entitled Assessing the Threat from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), predicts that
the smallest EMP attack on the US electrical grid could have a devastating effect on the supply chain for at least a year or more - depending upon the scale of the attack - starving much of the country of electricity, water, food, transportation and telephone/internet service.
"A long-term outage owing to EMP could disable most critical supply chains, leaving the U.S. population living in conditions similar to centuries past, prior to the advent of electric power," said the newly declassified July 2017 report.
"In the 1800s, the U.S. population was less than 60 million, and those people had many skills and assets necessary for survival without today's infrastructure. An extended blackout today could result in the death of a large fraction of the American people through the effects of societal collapse, disease, and starvation. While national planning and preparation for such events could help mitigate the damage, few such actions are currently underway or even being contemplated," added the executive summary.
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