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Simple apple depends upon hundreds of electronic systems in order to deliver it us to. we wouldnt have the apple or any other food. only 30-day food supply in the country to feed 320 million people, and water would stop immediately. when you turn on the tap, it requires millions of volts in order to deliver that water through your tap. and the commission couldnt figure out how old we keep 320 million people alive with no food and no water, possibly for years. we estimate that if we had a blackou...

Missile fields and bomber bases. and so unfortunately, we have left that flank unprotected. there are ideas and recommendations weve made for trying to, in a hurry, close this gap in our defenses. they could also do it by launching a balloon or short-range missile off of a ship, a freighter, north korea had a freighter with a nuclear capable missile in 2015. we only found out about that because they tried getting back to the panama canal and found hundreds of missiles hidden in bags of sugar on ...

Electromagnetic nuclear attack for your home or business? >> the same as a hurricane or any emergency situation. have a food supply, water supply. medicine supply. mark: can you have a room or something like that protected? >> you could have a faraday cage, a metal shed could be -- mark: thats all it takes? a metal shed. >> if you have electrical equipment, medical equipment or communications equipment that you wanted to keep safe. if you had a metal garbage can with a tight fitting lid and put ...

Nazi germany came up with called the blitzkrieg, combined armor with fast moving infantry and part of the blitzkrieg strategy is motorcycle corps. the motorcycle range out in front of the armored spearheads looking for weaknesses in the enemy lines. thats what the cyberattacks are now. the equivalent of a german motorcyclist sitting on a hill looking out over lines to see where is the weakness and how are we going to respond? gauging our responses as part of this. and we dont seem to get that we...

Defense. in fact under the clinton administration, we were ready to go. its a myth that strategic defense initiative didnt produce anything it. produced several systems, including one called brilliant pebbles that could have been deployed during the clinton administration. mark: what was that? >> it was basically a space-based interceptors, you know, there were autonomous space based interceptors. you could have put up a couple of thousands of them, and they would have intercepted during boost p...

Deployed that kind of warhead. we have warheads, you can use any to do an attack, we could, we could. weve got cyberoffensive capabilities. physical sabotage capabilities. mark: do we prepare for these things the way our enemies do? >> i wish we did. mark: in terms of offensive capabilities? . >> i wish we did. i dont know whether we do or not. i suspect we dont. the reason i suspect we dont is because we havent even protected ourselves from the enemies offensive capabilities. and if we understo...

Novelty. today, this simple switch, the biode is the modern civilization. all of our computers, control systems, cell phones operate on the switch and millions of more times vulnerable to the emp than the crude piece of instrumentation. and that would put our civilization at risk if we had a natural emp from the sun like the solar superstorm. if a nuclear emp attack put all of north america under the one attack. mark: i want to get to the nuclear scenarios. you can describe what the electrical g...

Seriously? >> some members of congress do. actually the congress as a whole does. the emp commission was reestablished, done so unanimously. senator ron johnson, the chairman of the senate homeland security committee passed a really important bill in 2016 called the critical infrastructure protection act which directed the department of homeland security to start planning and preparing to protect our country from natural and nuclear emp. so congress takes it seriously. i wish they would take it ...

Seriously? >> some members of congress do. i should say the congress as a whole does. the emp commission was established. senator ron johnson, the chairman of the senate homeland security committee passed a really important bill in 2016 called the critical infrastructure protection act which directed the department of homeland security to start planning and preparing to protect our country from natural and nuclear emp. so congress takes it seriously, i wish they would take it more seriously. one...

Seriously? >> some members of congress do. i should say the congress as a whole does. the emp commission was established. senator ron johnson, the chairman of the senate homeland security committee passed a really important bill in 2016 called the critical infrastructure protection act which directed the department of homeland security to start planning and preparing to protect our country from natural and nuclear emp. so congress takes it seriously, i wish they would take it more seriously. one...