On Sept. 13, controversial physicist, self-declared climate skeptic and backer of the fight against EMPs William Happer left the White House. Three days earlier, Trump had ousted national security adviser John Bolton, who according to people close to the congressional EMP effort was also a backer of hardening power plants and the electric grid against the threat.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWith Bolton gone and some of the people he had brought in \u2026 this has disrupted the process,\u201d said Peter Pry, executive director of the now-disbanded congressional advisory board that studied EMPs.<\/strong><\/p>\n Trump’s executive order on March 29 was meant to aid coordination between the departments of Homeland Security, Energy and Defense, as well as numerous other federal agencies, to address the long-debated risk. The utility industry has resisted hardening the grid to EMP attacks because of the high cost of addressing what it considers an unlikely threat.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe bureaucracy does not want this executive order,\u201d Pry added, referring to the president\u2019s order on EMP resilience. \u201cWhat they\u2019re trying to do is lowball the EMP threat \u2026 to such a level that basically industry will have to do little or nothing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n I really don’t know if I should credit this bad advice to the deep state or just to general ignorance, but we need to get the emp protection program back up and running. This is an area where we are truly vulnerable to attack (or a natural phenomina such as a giant solar flare).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have just experienced a month-plus shutdown of the American economy (along with many Americans experiencing cabin fever and many children abruptly being home-schooled). It will take a while for the economy to open back up and recover. However, what … Continue reading
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