This comes to us by way of Trump first president to protect electric grid from EMP, cyberattacks. Here's a truncated excerpt:
Two of the chief advocates, William R. Graham and Peter Vincent Pry, executives of the nation’s first Congressional EMP Commission, said in a statement, “President Trump understands, even if everyone in his administration does not, that ‘strategic stability’ and ‘longstanding strategic relationships with Russia or China’ are best maintained — not by a policy of mutual vulnerability — but by a policy of ‘Peace Through Strength.’ Protecting the nation from all missile threats and EMP should be the cornerstone of a ‘Peace Through Strength’ policy.”
The duo claim that protecting the grid would not be expensive and could done fast and with commercial products, a solution Trump endorsed in his strategy.
The National Security Strategy document does mention "eletromagnetic attacks." But the statements from Graham and Pry are the first to suggest that protecting the grid would not be expensive. I had always assumed that the cost was what stalled utilities' own efforts to do anything.
Here's hoping that they do more than hold committee meetings to discuss the threat.
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2:43 PM 12/21/2017
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