Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack
The EMP Commission was established pursuant to title XIV of the Floyd
D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (as
enacted into law by Public Law 106-398; 114 Stat. 1654A-345). Duties of
the EMP Commission include assessing:
- the nature and magnitude of potential high-altitude EMP threats
to the United States from all potentially hostile states or
non-state actors that have or could acquire nuclear weapons and
ballistic missiles enabling them to perform a high-altitude EMP
attack against the United States within the next 15 years;
- the vulnerability of United States military and especially
civilian systems to an EMP attack, giving special attention to
vulnerability of the civilian infrastructure as a matter of
emergency preparedness;
- the capability of the United States to repair and recover from
damage inflicted on United States military and civilian systems by
an EMP attack; and
- the feasibility and cost of hardening select military and
civilian systems against EMP attack.
The Commission is charged with identifying any steps it believes
should be taken by the United States to better protect its military and
civilian systems from EMP attack.
Multiple reports and briefings associated with this effort have been
produced by the EMP Commission including an
Executive Report (PDF, 578KB) and a
Critical National Infrastructures Report (PDF, 7MB) describing
findings and recommendations.
The EMP Commission was reestablished via the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 to continue its efforts to
monitor, investigate, make recommendations, and report to Congress on
the evolving threat to the United States from electromagnetic pulse
attack resulting from the detonation of a nuclear weapon or weapons at
high altitude.
Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack
http://www.empcommission.org/docs/empc_exec_rpt.pdf
http://www.empcommission.org/
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