Taking America off the Grid
by IAN GREENHALGH
PrepperFortress.com
MARCH 19, 2015
Trying to predict future events is an often unrewarding pursuit fraught with dangers, rarely are predictions fully accurate, more often, they are spectacularly wide of the mark; for this reason, speculation rarely benefits anyone.
However, with Dick Cheney’s chilling warning/threat of a ‘far deadlier nuclear 9/11′ in mind, we couldn’t resist indulging in a little speculation as to the possible target of this future attack.
Of course, we aren’t the only ones who have considered the issue of likely targets for a ‘terrorist’ attack.
In 2007 , the U.S. Department of Homeland Security commissioned a report by the National Research Council into the vulnerability of the U.S. Power grid to terrorist attack. However the D.H.S. decided at that time that the report would be classified in its entirety. After a formal request from the Research Council for an updated security classification review, the report was cleared for public release in Fall 2012.
The report makes it clear that the U.S. Power grid is highly vulnerable to attack. There are 30 substations in the U.S. that play a critical role in the nation’s grid operations; the report said that if any nine of them were taken offline, the U.S. power grid could suffer coast-to-coast blackouts lasting 18 months or more and costing the nation billions of dollars to repair.
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