Possible EMP attack not taken lightly
The following is an excerpt from an article originally appearing on ONENewsNow
A national defense analyst and former Reagan Defense Department official warned that the U.S. remains very vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack from North Korea.
Recently, the Atlanta airport was shut down for 10 hours by an electrical fire that affected millions of travelers across the country. And just three months after Hurricane Maria, parts of Puerto Rico are still without power.
Frank Gaffney – who served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security during the Reagan Administration and now runs the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC – says that those two illustrations point out the importance of securing the country’s electrical grid. The website Stopemp.org provides details.
Gaffney stressed that the North Koreans have explicitly threatened to use an EMP weapon to destroy America’s electrical grid.
“If that electromagnetic pulse option is available to them, it could be devastating in our country,” Gaffney pointed out. “Imagine your life without electricity for a couple months – let alone possibly years. You may not have a life – I the truth of the matter be known – so it’s not something to be undertaken lightly, and what I’ve been arguing for is not going to military war with North Korea, but it may have to be done as messy as it will be.”
Gaffney impressed that an EMP attack could be launched by short-range missiles.
“By putting them on a tramp steamer and sailing in near our shores, it’s entirely possible that two satellites that they have orbiting the United States and the rest of the planet could do just that – and [North Korea] may be equipped to do it even as we speak,” he alerted Americans.
Gaffney also impressed that an EMP attack against the U.S. would be a catastrophe that would make Atlanta’s and Puerto Rico’s afflictions pale by comparison. Another website, Securefreedom.org discuses measures to ensure that such rogue nations as North Korea and Iran will not infringe on the freedom of Americans.
Mr. Gaffney is the host of Secure Freedom Radio, a nationally-syndicated radio program heard weeknights throughout the country. He is an associate author of highly acclaimed Shariah: The Threat to America and the publisher of over a dozen other books and monographs from the Center for Security Policy Press.
In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving U.S.-USSR relations, nuclear forces, arms control, missile defense policy and U.S.-European defense ties. He acted in that capacity for seven months during which time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO’s senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings.
From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle.
From February 1981 to August 1983, Mr. Gaffney was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by the late Senator John Tower (R-Texas). And, in the latter 1970’s, Mr. Gaffney served as an aide to the late Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson (D-Washington) in the areas of defense and foreign policy.
Mr. Gaffney holds a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Mr. Gaffney’s leadership has been recognized by numerous organizations including: the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award (1987), the U.S. Business and Industry Council’s Defender of the National Interest Award (1994), the Navy League of the United States’ Alfred Thayer Mahan Literary Achievement Award (1999), and the Zionist Organization of America’s “Louis Brandeis Award” (2003), the Western Conservative Summit’s Stephen H. Long Award (2015), the Council for National Policy’s George Washington Military Leadership Award (2016) and the IMPACT Award from Ginni Thomas and United in Purpose (2017).
Mr. Gaffney was born in 1953 and resides in the Washington, D.C. area.
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