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How Prepared Are We for a Rare and Powerful Solar Event?
In August of 1859, astronomers noticed an unusually large number of dark spots on the sun’s surface. One of those observers ...
The earth barely missed taking a massive solar punch in the teeth two weeks ago, an “electromagnetic pulse” so big that it could have knocked out power, cars and iPhones throughout the United States.
The threat to our power grid isn’t just from nukes solar storms and sabotage could plunge entire regions into darkness. From the Carrington Event to the 2013 sniper attack on a U.S. substation, this ...
It’s the end of an era and the start of a new beginning for a popular gay bar in downtown Portland. In the past year, several businesses have moved out of the Goose Hollow, citing crime, drug use and ...
During a recent interview on CNN, Ted Cruz described what he considers an under-reported threat to national security: Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attacks. He explained that this danger involves “a ...
Near-misses are never quite as exciting as a direct hit that splatters all before it. Still, this week saw the second anniversary of an event that might have changed lives and, well, even wrecked ...
I'm pretty certain that I'd never given that scenario much thought. Some quick searching shows that this becoming a popular survivalist scenario, and many people (of unknown credibility) are claiming ...
POWELL — As his time as Park County’s Homeland Security Coordinator neared its end last week, Mart Knapp was busy putting up strips of foil in a subterranean room. The roughly $12,000 project — ...
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