Drug resistent Superbug - EMP device

What if the unthinkable happened?

Could your family survive, even for a few weeks, without electricity... hospitals... water pumped in from miles away... and food trucked in from out of state?

If terrorists succeed in attacking the U.S. power grid with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) device, they could throw America into the dark ages in a split second. A new generation of drug-resistant "superbugs" could result in global epidemics that kill up to 100 million people.

And as Hurricane Katrina proved, the Federal Government's ability to help during a national emergency is severely limited.

"Dear Fellow American,

If there is one thing that gives America's security planners nightmares, it's the country's power grid.

That's because without electricity, virtually everything Americans depend upon for survival—food, water, heat, transportation and communications—would be threatened on a massive scale.

Yet experts warn that a single, split-second Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) from a nuclear weapon or EMP-producing device would effectively "fry" the nation's delicate power grid and virtually all non-shielded electronic equipment within hundreds of miles.

The Implications are Horrific:

Without a large-scale invasion or even a nuclear war, parts of America could be thrown into the dark ages in an instant.

• No lights.
  

• No telephones.
  

• No Internet.
  

• No radio or television.

Even most vehicles would not start because of the electronic fuel-injection systems in most cars and trucks. And That's Just For Starters! The Entire Financial System Would Also Collapse.

ATM machines would not work.

Banks would be shuttered.

Grocery stores would soon be looted.

Police would be paralyzed and helpless.

"If even a crude nuclear weapon were detonated anywhere between 40 kilometers to 400 kilometers above the earth, in a split-second it would generate an electro-magnetic pulse [EMP] that would cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food and other infrastructure," said a report from the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, a blue-ribbon panel established by Congress in 2001." Source: Bob Livingston

Did anyone know that we had such a commission or even know about EMP's?