As hearings before the House Armed Services Committee and a new "Backgrounder" by Jack Spencer of the Heritage Foundation entitled "America's Vulnerability to a Different Nuclear Threat: An Electromagnetic Pulse, " makes clear, a rogue state or other enemy could inflict grievous harm on an advanced society like America's by exploding a nuclear weapon high above the United States.

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The EMP Threat Commission recommends steps be taken urgently to reduce that vulnerability by protecting electrical, water, telecommunications and other infrastructures against the crippling effects of electromagnetic pulse.

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