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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 grid looks like in this country, and who runs the electrical grid? >> we have 300 utilities which is ...

Eastern grid, a western grid and a texas grid, and canada is part of our grid. canada on the same part of our grid. the eastern and western grid. so it's not just the u.s. grid, it includes canada. and they're all wired together except for texas, which has its own independent texas grid. mark: why is that? came about that way? >> pretty much came about that y. there are regional entities that manage and try to coordinate these various grids and texas decided, you know, decades ago that they wanted to be on their own. mark: these are interlocking grid systems. >> yes. mark: regional systems. >>...

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