Is The US Prepared For A Nuclear EMP To Shut-Down New York City?
Authored by Peter Pry, chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission, op-ed via The Hill,
Since Sept. 11, 2001, analysts have been increasingly concerned terrorists might steal, buy, build, or be given a nuclear weapon — and the War on Terrorism would become a nuclear war. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Planning Scenario #1 is detonation of a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon, as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, in a location such as New York City or Washington, D.C.