Back in September 1985, when I lived on Long Island, NY, I experienced Hurricane Gloria which left 750,000 of us without electrical power for as long as 11 days (I experienced only 7 days without ...

As a person growing up in Philadelphia, I was repeatedly bombarded with words of wisdom from my parents, teachers and others who would often cite Benjamin Franklin and his famous quote: “An ounce of ...

An event took place October 2012 in the Utah desert that escaped the attention of most. Boeing successful tested an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) device mounted within a missile. When I first reported ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A U.S. Air Force base in Texas has taken the first steps to guard against an electromagnetic ...

Experts are warning that the United States is vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack from adversaries such as China, and that time is running out to invest in defending the country from ...

Renowned author and military historian William Forstchen told the Washington Examiner in a recent interview that the blast from an EMP would devastate the U.S. because America’s electrical ...

One of the last meetings I had in office was with three scientists from the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Attack. As they briefed me about the threat and ...

Key point: EMPs aren’t powerful enough to cause a ton of damage, but the nukes that could cause them are a real problem. Few weapons are as scary as those that exist only in our minds. A few years ago ...

Yes, the seemingly impossible and improbable does sometimes happen — two airplanes hitting the World Trade Center buildings, as one example. Preparedness starts with awareness of various threats.

A tank commander on the front line radios in a report during an international crisis…and there is no response. Has a stealthy electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack destroyed the radio electronics in the ...

A postwar replica of the 'Little Boy' nuclear weapon, which was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. U.S. government Photo, circa 1946. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ...

CHICOPEE — More than 40 police, firefighters, Air Force members from Westover Air Reserve Base and the people who run the region’s power grid gathered Tuesday in a basement conference room to think ...