Single EMP attack seen costing trillions

The critical infrastructure disruptions caused by a single electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the U.S. could cost the country $10 trillion or more, according to EMP commission member Lowell Wood. Caused by high-altitude nuclear blasts, an EMP can knock out electrical systems of all types on the...

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