EMP THREAT – REAL AND GROWING – ICON LECTURE
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
Please scroll down to read the U.S. News & World Report article entitled “The EMP Threat is Real and Growing” which discusses a possibly catastrophic threat to this country that very few people are aware of.
To inform the public on this possible disaster, ICON Lectures will be presenting James Jay Carafano, PhD, who will be speaking on “The EMP Threat” on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 7 pm at Extraordinary Ventures, 200 South Elliott Road, Chapel Hill. Dr. Carafano is a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges and is the Heritage Foundation’s Vice President and is responsible for Heritage’s entire defense and foreign policy team. He is also a 25-year Army veteran with a doctorate from Georgetown University and is also a West Point graduate.
Tickets for this exceptional lecture can be obtained at www.iconlectureseries.com
Nancy
US NEWS & WORLD REPORT
The EMP Threat Is Real and Growing
Building defenses against the electromagnetic threat has never been more urgent – or more doable.
We must harden our infrastructure to withstand electromagnetic threats.Ongoing crises make it difficult for policymakers to devote sufficient attention to electromagnetic threats, which are less prominent but potentially catastrophic. Events that reflect our growing vulnerability to these threats often slip quickly from the front page, as did the cyberattack against Sony Pictures. Others, such as solar storms across Alaska in March and the accidental power station explosion in April that left Washington, D.C. in the dark, go mostly unnoticed. And even events that dominate headlines, like the Iran nuclear agreement, don’t tell the whole story about electromagnetic threats. As a nuclear threshold state, Iran may quickly race to build a bomb that could be used to conduct a devastating electromagnetic attack against the United States.
