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Search - EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) Protection: Impacts, Vulnerabilities, Strategies - Electric, Telecommunications, Banking, Fuel, Food, Space and Satellites, Public Response (Ringbound Book)

EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) Protection: Impacts, Vulnerabilities, Strategies - Electric, Telecommunications, Banking, Fuel, Food, Space and Satellites, Public Response (Ringbound Book)

EMP Protection Impacts Vulnerabilities Strategies Electric Telecommunications Banking Fuel Food Space and Satellites Public Response - Electromagnetic Pulse - Ringbound Book
Author: Advanced Professional Education and News Service

This ringbound book provides a reproduction of the important April 2008 Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack - Critical National Infrastructures. The report is a detailed followup to the 2004 Executive Report which provided an overview of the EMP threat. Contents include: Chapter... more » 1. Infrastructure Commonalities * SCADA Systems * Impact of SCADA Vulnerabilities on Critical Infrastructures: Historical Insight * Infrastructures and Their Interdependencies * Commission-Sponsored Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Activities * Chapter 2. Electric Power * Description * Vulnerabilities * Test Results * Historical Insights * Distinctions * Strategy * Recommendations * Chapter 3. Telecommunications * Telecommunications Support During Emergencies * EMP Impact on Telecommunications * Recommendations * Chapter 4. Banking and Finance * The Financial Services Industry * Vulnerability to EMP * Consequences of Financial Infrastructure Failure * Chapter 5. Petroleum and Natural Gas * Infrastructure Description * Direct Effects of EMP on Petroleum and Natural Gas Infrastructure * Petroleum Infrastructure and SCADA * Natural Gas Infrastructure and SCADA * Effects of an EMP Event on the U.S. Petroleum and Natural Gas Infrastructures * Indirect Effects of EMP: Accounting for Infrastructure Interdependencies * Chapter 6. Transportation Infrastructure * Long-Haul Railroad * The Automobile and Trucking Infrastructures * Maritime Shipping * Commercial Aviation * Chapter 7. Food Infrastructure * Dependence of Food on Other Infrastructures * Making, Processing, and Distributing Food * Vulnerability to EMP * Consequences of Food Infrastructure Failure * Chapter 8. Water Infrastructure * The Water Works * Vulnerability to EMP * Consequences of Water Infrastructure Failure * Chapter 9. Emergency Services * Emergency Services Systems Architecture and Operations * Impact of an EMP Attack * Chapter 10. Space Systems * Terms of Reference for Satellites * Line-of-Sight Exposure to a Nuclear Detonation * Persistently Trapped Radiation and Its Effects * Nuclear Weapon Effects on Electronic Systems * Satellite Ground Stations * Discussion of Results * Chapter 11. Government * Maintaining Government Connectivity and Coherence * Chapter 12. Keeping The Citizenry Informed: Effects On People * Impact of an EMP Attack The electromagnetic pulse generated by a high altitude nuclear explosion is one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences. The increasingly pervasive use of electronics of all forms represents the greatest source of vulnerability to attack by EMP. Electronics are used to control, communicate, compute, store, manage, and implement nearly every aspect of United States (U.S.) civilian systems. When a nuclear explosion occurs at high altitude, the EMP signal it produces will cover the wide geographic region within the line of sight of the detonation. This broad band, high amplitude EMP, when coupled into sensitive electronics, has the capability to produce widespread and long lasting disruption and damage to the critical infrastructures that underpin the fabric of U.S. society. Because of the ubiquitous dependence of U.S. society on the electrical power system, its vulnerability to an EMP attack, coupled with the EMP s particular damage mechanisms, creates the possibility of long-term, catastrophic consequences. The implicit invitation to take advantage of this vulnerability, when coupled with increasing proliferation of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems, is a serious concern. A single EMP attack may seriously degrade or shut down a large part of the electric power grid in the geographic area of EMP exposure effectively instantaneously.

ISBN-13: 9781422050576
ISBN-10: 1422050572
Publication Date: 2/27/2010
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Progressive Management
Book Type: Ring-bound
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