Former CIA Director Warns: ‘Two-Thirds Of US Population’ Would Die From EMP Attack

A former CIA director says the United States is not doing enough to protect itself from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, which he calls the greatest threat to the United States because it would bring “our civilization to a cold, dark halt.” In such a scenario, anywhere from two-thirds to 90 percent of the population would die if the grid was down for a year, according to various estimates. James Woolsey, who served as CIA director under President Obama, co-wrote the Wall Street Journal column in which he agreed with billionaire hedge-fund managerPaul Singer’s description of an EMP attack as “the most significant threat” to the U.S. and its allies. “He’s right,” Woolsey and Peter Vincent Pry wrote. “Our food and water supplies, communications, banking, hospitals, law enforcement, etc., all depend on the electric grid. Yet until recently little attention has been paid to the ease of generating EMPs by detonating a nuclear weapon in orbit above the U.S., and thus bringing our civilization to a cold, dark halt.” An EMP attack would occur when a rogue nation or terrorist group sets off a nuclear bomb high above the atmosphere, frying the power grid and electronics.



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