"EMP Commission Chair Warns on North Korean EMP"

I posted in April of the implications of a massive electricity outage in San Francisco, suing it as a springboard to discuss the stunning seriousness of how massively lethal a deliberate, coordinated attack on the nation's power grids could be.

And that included a low-orbit detonation of an atomic weapon designed to emit increased, intense electromagnetic radiation, known as Electromagnetic Pulse, or EMP.

 In one instant, power grids across most of the country could be rendered useless. Some estimates of deaths caused, not by the atomic blast but by the years-long effects of sudden reversion to a 18th-century way of life, are in the many millions.

Comes now John R. Moore, much more conversant on this topic than I, pointing put that the United States' EMP Commission Chair Warns on North Korean EMP. There is, 

... a new piece on the topic -- “North Korea Nuclear EMP Attack: An Existential Threat.” The author is the former head of the congressional EMP Commission and is a foremost expert on EMP. This article adds to the PJ Media report by confirming that the yield of nuclear weapons already tested by North Korea is sufficient to be devastating. It refutes the prior article:

Thus, even if North Korea only has primitive, low-yield nuclear weapons, and if other states or terrorists acquire one or a few such weapons as well as the capability to detonate them at an altitude of 30 kilometers or higher over the United States. … the EMP Commission warned over a decade ago in its 2004 Report, “the damage level could be sufficient to be catastrophic to the Nation, and our current vulnerability invites attack."

Read the whole thing. As John concludes, "[T]he threat is real. It could happen at any time. We are not ready."