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SO I FINISHED WILLIAM FORSTCHEN?S One Second After, and it?s pretty good ? sort of an Alas, Babylon?

By Glenn Reynolds

SO I FINISHED WILLIAM FORSTCHEN’S One Second After, and it’s pretty good — sort of an Alas, Babylon for the 21st Century. Forstchen hopes to attract attention to the danger of an EMP attack, and I hope he does. I’m somewhat less positive about whether that will produce any actual, useful preparation.

Meanwhile, there’s also the worry about EMP problems from solar storms. We need to be hardening up our infrastructure in all sorts of ways; this is one.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 19, 2009 (boomark / email).