In 2020, a report by the Foundation For Resilient Societies showed that it would cost about $25 billion, annually, to defend our electricity grid against a HEMP attack.
Their high-use customers in the chemical, metal, cement, paper, and machinery business don't want to pay for any increase in their cost of power, so they and their lobbyists pooh-pooh the probability of a solar flare or an enemy HEMP attack.
A former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said the little-publicized attack was a "Very well planned, coordinated and executed attack on a major piece of our electric grid infrastructure," adding that the attack may have been a test run for a bigger strike.
From January 2010 to June 2023, there have been 1,072 physical attacks on the grid.
They may think that the meager defenses we now have against an ICBM attack will at least warn us of incoming missiles and China would then be destroyed by our ICBMs. But China has another and better option.
We often hear about cyber attacks on our grid that are defeated or do minor damage, but it would be much easier for Chinese saboteurs to do the job.
On your drive-by, did you see those transformers surrounded by walls topped with razor wire, backed up with sensors, spotlights, and guards? How difficult would it be for one trained saboteur to cut through a chain link fence at night and plant explosives? And even if those nine key nodes are defended, are the guards trained, armed, and on a 24/7 hair trigger to repel an attack by, say, twenty heavily armed Chinese saboteurs?
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/how-china-will-punch-out-our-lights
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