The Center Fact Checks the New York Times on the Danger…
In response to a New York Times article titled “Among Gingrich’s Passions, a Doomsday Vision,” the Center for Security Policy offered the following fact check outlining the true threat an...
View ArticleThe Real EMP Threat
On the front page, Monday’s New York Times provides a slanted and insidious "news" item on Newt Gingrich’s warnings about the danger of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons. The author of the piece,...
View ArticleOn Obama’s watch
On February 5th, President Obama provided his own Super Sunday show. In some respects, it was almost as bizarre as Madonna’s performance at half time. In particular, in his interview with NBC’s Matt...
View ArticleLeading With No One Behind
In Seoul, South Korea on Monday, President Obama enthused once again about his vision of a world without nuclear weapons. It’s a dream he has had since he was a radical leftist studying at Columbia...
View ArticleFrank Gaffney: Is North Korea Planning to Launch EMP Attack?
Frank Gaffney appeared on the Kudlow Report on CNBC to discuss North Korea. Amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula, the North Korean government told foreign governments to leave South Korean...
View ArticleIt’s Not Just Those Dam Hackers
Bill Gertz has an alarming piece up at today’s Washington Free Beacon on the latest revelations on Chinese hacking of U.S. critical infrastructure programs, this time aimed at the U.S. Army Corps of...
View ArticleDo You Feel Lucky? The Danger of EMP
In 1987, Ronald Reagan mused that, if the world were about to be devastated by an alien force – perhaps a collision with a large asteroid, peoples of all nations, ideological persuasions and political...
View ArticleLights out: House plan would protect nation’s electricity from solar flare,…
Amid growing fears of a massive electromagnetic pulse hit from either a solar flare or a terrorist nuclear bomb, House Republicans on Tuesday will unveil a plan to save the nation’s electric grid from...
View ArticleDoing something about space weather
A wit once observed a persistent truth: “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” That has been especially the case with respect to “space weather” – a phenomenon...
View ArticleSHIELD Act to protect from solar catastrophes, electromagnetic pulses
It’s among the greatest threats facing America today, U.S. Congressman Trent Franks states bluntly: a tremendous electromagnetic pulse, either naturally occurring or from a small nuclear device...
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Poll: 70% Support Taking Action on EMP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Contact Alex Van Ness vanness@securefreedom.org (202) 835-9077 By a wide margin, Republicans, Democrats and Independents support taking steps to harden American infrastructure...
View ArticleMissiles intercepted on North Korean freighter prompt fresh warnings from EMP…
For Immediate Release | For more information, contact Kevin McVicker (703) 739-5920 | kmcvicker@sbpublicaffairs.com Washington, D.C.—Yesterday, a distinguished panel of six industry and policy...
View ArticleE.M.P. vulnerability invites catastrophe
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld noted long ago that there is a geopolitical counterpart to Aristotle’s axiom that “nature abhors a vacuum.” As the author of the terrific new book, Rumsfeld’s...
View ArticleJim Woolsey: Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) is existential threat to America
PRESS RELEASE FORMER CIA DIRECTOR WOOLSEY WARNS OF EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO AMERICA Washington, D.C.: On July 29th, President Bill Clinton’s former Director of Central Intelligence, R. James Woolsey, led...
View ArticleGingrich endorses SHIELD Act, praises Maine EMP legislation
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich praises Maine State Rep. Andrea Boland for her successful efforts to adopt model legislation protecting against Electromagnetic Pulse events, and Center...
View ArticleEMP Awareness Day
Ten years ago this week, a tree branch fell on a power line in upstate New York and up to 55 million people in North America had no electricity for several days. If something that grave could happen...
View ArticleMust-See TV: Your Life Could Depend on It
CONTACT: Emily Cashel Shirley & Banister Public Affairs 703-739-5920/800-536-5920 emlycashel@sbpublicaffairs.com Must-See TV: Your Life Could Depend on It National Geographic Film is Not Fiction,...
View ArticleSymposium on Law, Policy and Innovative Technologies in National Security
On the morning of the Keeper of the Flame Award Dinner – paying tribute to the life of Congressman Bill Young – the Center convened two expert panels to discuss two areas of technological development...
View ArticleThe Real American Blackout: Will the electric industry really examine the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 29, 2013 CONTACT: Emily Cashel Shirley & Banister Public Affairs 703-739-5920/800-536-5920 ecashel@sbpublicaffairs.com...
View ArticleWill ‘GridEx II’ Keep Americans in the Dark?
If a predictable, naturally occurring event could severely disrupt the electric power grid and result in the death of perhaps as many as nine out of ten Americans, do you think the electric industry...
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