As the United States wakes up to the threat cyberwarfare poses to the power grid and electronics, the latest intelligence indicates that Russia has developed a “super-electromagnetic pulse” weapon and warhead that can travel at Mach 20 and plunge the United States into darkness virtually undetected.
Peter Vincent Pry, executive director of the National and Homeland Security EMP Task Force, also said that the Chinese Communist Party has surpassed U.S. developments in EMP warfare.
What’s more, administration critics say President Biden‘s decision to lift former President Trump‘s ban on Chinese Communist participation in the U.S. power grid has opened the back door to a Communist attack on the U.S. power supply.
Pry said, “Washington’s incompetence and indecision will invite increasingly aggressive cyber attacks in the future.” He has worked with Congress, the previous administration, the power industry and the Pentagon to prepare for attacks.
During the Trump Administration, he and others succeeded in getting the White House and Pentagon to focus on the problem and begin protecting critical facilities. But the energy industry has been slow to act.
He recently warned that the political turmoil in Washington is a “golden opportunity” for a foreign enemy to use an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to attack the United States.
Those pushing to prepare for an EMP attack argue that Russia, Communist China, North Korea and Iran see the U.S. as an easy target and one that can quickly succumb because so much of the economy depends on electricity, communications and the Internet, all of which would cease to function in the event of an attack.
In his new report on Russia, Pry provides details on progress in Moscow’s push for electromagnetic pulse warfare, or “cyber doom,” including a new weapon that can transmit at high speeds.
Unlike traditional warfare, he said, an EMP weapon exploded high enough in the atmosphere to destroy power grids and computers in large areas of the United States. A power outage could last more than a year.
An enemy nation with such a weapon, he said, “could black out North America and NATO Europe and win World War III at the speed of light.
His report comes on the 26th anniversary of Russia’s nuclear war scare, in which the Kremlin mistook a Norwegian weather rocket for an incoming U.S. EMP attack, the closest the superpowers have ever come to nuclear war.
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