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02469aam a2200313 a 4500 001 9F73A40A332F11E49E51C4E1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140903010030 008 120222s2013 dcu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1936488566 020 $a 9781936488568 (hbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)778418902 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d BDX $d CLE $d CO2 $d TnLvILS $d SILO 100 1 $a Maloof, F. Michael. 245 12 $a A nation forsaken : $b EMP, the escalating threat of an American catastrophe / $c F. Michael Maloof. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a Washington D.C. : $b WND Books ; $c c2013. 300 $a iii, 161 p. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Electric power systems $x Security measures $z United States. 650 0 $a Electromagnetic pulse. 650 0 $a Electronic systems $x Security measures $z United States. 650 0 $a Telecommunication systems $x Security measures $z United States. 650 0 $a Emergency management $z United States. 520 $a There have been warnings from scientists and other experts for years that the Nation's electrical grid system and other critical infrastructures that have almost complete dependency on electricity and electronic components are highly vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event either from natural or man-made causes.However, Congress and the administrations of previous and current presidents largely have ignored those warnings. Events such as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States and then the devastating Hurricane Katrina that revealed vulnerabilities to those infrastructures heightened that concern. Due to the lapse of time and a relatively calm period since those disasters, policymakers have been lulled back into complacency rather than take preventative action against what could be the biggest threat to US national and economic security in our lifetime. Ì·Michael Maloof breaks down that threat in his book A Nation Forsaken. He even outlines how our own military is similarly vulnerable to an EMP event due to its 99 percent dependency on the nation's electrical grid system for electricity and communications, raising the high prospect that it may not be able to function to defend the nation in its time of greatest need. 941 $a 2 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508020422.0 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20140903010353.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9F73A40A332F11E49E51C4E1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search