Aw Nuts - U.S. Seen Vulnerable to Space 'pulse' Attack

Are you kidding me? The "single most serious national-security challenge."

The United States is highly vulnerable to attack from electronic pulses caused by a nuclear blast in space, according to a new book on threats to U.S. security.

A single nuclear weapon carried by a ballistic missile and detonated a few hundred miles over the United States would cause "catastrophe for the nation" by damaging electricity-based networks and infrastructure, including computers and telecommunications, according to "War Footing: 10 Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World."

"This is the single most serious national-security challenge and certainly the least known," said Frank J. Gaffney Jr. of the Center for Security Policy, a former Pentagon official and lead author of the book, which includes contributions by 34 security and intelligence specialists.

People have been thinking about the EMP threat for, what, forty (fifty?) years now. "Least known?"- my fanny. I am getting a box of tin foil and heading for the basement right now!