America is a modern technological society heavily dependent on critical infrastructures that all have in common an electrical grid system that has made the U.S. the major economic and industrial world power that it is today. Yet, this same technology-based society could become the nation’s Achilles’ heel in the event of a natural or man-made electromagnetic, or EMP, event, causing unprecedented, cascading, catastrophic failures of computer chips and major infrastructures, potentially thrusting the American people back to a 19 century-style existence overnight. The good news? It’s all preventable. The bad news? The U.S. government has done nothing but study the problem. Find out more watching a live-streamed, free presentation by national security expert F. Michael Maloof, author of the new book, “A Nation Forsaken.”
