Threat Posed by Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) to U.S. Military Systems and Civil Infrastructure: Hearing Before the Military Research and Development Subcommittee of the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held July 16, 1997, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - 123 pages |
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Page 11 - Certain national infrastructures are so vital that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the defense or economic security of the United States.
Page 107 - Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University...
Page 107 - Staff) of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, operated under long-term contract (since 1953 through the present) by the University of California for the US Department of Energy and its predecessor organizations, under Contract W-7405-eng-48. The Hoover Institution has received grants and contracts in support of its...
Page 107 - Energy, approximately 5% coming from the Department of Defense and 10% from other Federal agencies. Dr. Wood is unaware of any funding currently being received for any purpose by either the Hoover Institution or the Livermore Laboratory - or funding received during the past three years, or funding which is anticipated or being negotiated for - on the subject of his testimony. In particular, Dr. Wood has received or benefited from no such funding personally. Dr. Wood is not representing the Hoover...
Page 94 - Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-6010, and Member, Director's Technical Staff, University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550.
Page 82 - ... transportation, banking and finance, transportation, water supply systems, emergency services (including medical, police, fire, and rescue), and continuity of government. Threats to these critical infrastructures fall into two categories: physical threats to tangible property ("physical threats"), and threats of electronic, radio-frequency, or computer-based attacks on the information or communications components that control critical infrastructures ("cyber threats"). Because many of these critical...
Page 99 - ... small: an arch-capitalist weapon which killed people but didn't destroy the capital plant in which the people were located. EMP weaponry (potentially even in single copy), in acute contrast to this now-ancient canard, potentially destroys in a highly effective manner the high technology electrical / electronic plant of any advanced nation - the heartland of modern civilization - while not directly harming people at all. It is profoundly unsettling that the electrical/electronic infrastructure...
Page 99 - However, I commend to your favorable attention the substantial ongoing efforts of the Services to attain improved EMP hardness levels of tactical military equipments of many kinds, dubious recent coordination efforts from the Joint Staff notwithstanding. The EMP robustness of the civilian infrastructure of the United States can be summarized far less equivocally: it is entirely non-existent. Our civilian telephony, electricity, broadband communications and electronics plants fire all naked to our...
Page 106 - I'm familiar in the strategic warfare area has been highly commendable in its peak intensity, its intellectual acumen and its cogency but, again with all due respect, has been less-than-perfect in its regularity and follow-through. Constancy and perseverance will be crucial in seeing Congressional mandates faithfully and efficiently translated into DoD programs and EMP defenses-in-being, as cognizant Government officials-andofficers come and go with remarkably high frequency.
Page 100 - ... require of ourselves before an American President would order a retaliatory strike imposing condign punishment on the suspect nation? Paralyzed as a modern nation, thrown back decades in time in industrial capabilities but still retaining a reasonably full set of nuclear teeth in our national mouth, how would we Americans then choose whom to bite - if anyone? That scenarios of this general flavor are currently considered "within the pale" is illustrated by the "Army 2020" war game conducted at...