How serious is EMP threat?
WorldNetDaily

Security and counter-terrorism experts see a major threat to the U.S. of a future electromagnetic pulse attack induced by the firing of a Scud missile from an offshore platform by a rogue nation or terrorist network.

That's the top story in the current issue of Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium, online, intelligence newsletter published by the founder of WND and a veteran of 30 years in the news business.

In addition, Chinese military strategists are pushing Beijing to pursue exotic, high-tech weaponry designed to counter and defeat the more technologically developed and technologically reliant U.S. in a potential showdown in the future, G2 Bulletin reports as part of a comprehensive package of stories on the threat.

Among the options being promoted is the pursuit of electromagnetic pulse weapons that have the potential, according to an expert U.S. panel, to cripple the U.S. and ultimately destroy most of the population.

But the response to the heightened threat back in Washington has been curious.

The U.S. Defense Department is opposing a move in the House of Representatives to re-authorize a commission to study electromagnetic pulse threats to the U.S. – a panel that last year reported EMP represents one of the gravest risks to the future of the country.

Defense officials asked House lawmakers last month to stop the re-establishment of the EMP commission because supporting the effort could divert resources needed to implement action plans against such attacks.