User:Buffalo2wheeler/"EMPact America"

EMPACT America is a non-partisan, non-profit organization for citizens concerned about protecting the American people from a nuclear or natural electromagnetic pulse (EMP) catastrophe.

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) could be caused by several solar storms, or by the detonation of a nuclear device high in the earth's atmosphere. As the pulse interacts with the earths' magnetic field, electric currents can be induced in electrical service lines, causing an overload of electric grids and failure of key components of the electric distribution system.

Two Congressional commissions, the EMP Commission and the Strategic Posture Commission, have warned that terrorists, rogue states, China and Russia could, using a single crude nuclear weapon delivered by a primitive missile, inflict an EMP attack that would cause the collapse of critical civilian infrastructures--such as infrastructures for electric power, telecommunications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water--across the entire continental United States, that are vital alike for the sustenance of our modern society and the survival of its citizens.

In 2009, EMPact America sponsored the very first national electromagnetic pulse conference in Niagara Falls, New York. Speakers at the conference included:
 * Newt Gingrich (whose presentation was recorded in this video)
 * Mike Huckabee
 * John Kappenman
 * Bronius Cikotas
 * Peter Vincent Pry