“This is an insurance
policy to protect America, so you’re going to spend because if we don’t, soon- er or later, we’re going to regret it.” Along with developing
the Golden Dome, Forstch- en said it’s critical that the U.S. upgrade its electrical grid, which he said is the other half of the equation in combating an EMP attack. “The electrical grid
is 40 years old,” he said. “We’re pumping our elec- tricity on systems from the 1970s and 1980s. We have to upgrade that system to a 21st century model with better circuit breakers, particularly on high-ten- sion lines.” He said those upgrades,
along with a Golden Dome, could circumvent some of the effects of an EMP and
the cost shouldn’t impede doing so. “Upgrading the electrical grid over the next five or 10
years would be $50 billion to $100 billion,” he said. “But we spent a trillion on green energy and what did we get? “This is a no-brainer. It’s estimated that the infrastruc-
ture of the United States has a cost worth $100 trillion, and we’re not spending $50 billion to protect it?” Trump when announcing the Golden Dome said he
wants all parts of it to be manufactured in the U.S. Forst- chen said the same should happen with upgrades to the electrical grid; most of its components are currently being made in China. “That would be the equivalent on Dec. 8, 1941, of the
president meeting with Admiral [Joseph] King and Gen. George Marshall, and King saying, ‘We have a problem, Mr. President. All of our aircraft carriers are made in Japan,’ and Marshall saying, ‘All of our tanks are made in Germany. We’re screwed.’” The Golden Dome has support in Congress, which
approved the first $25 billion of Trump’s request earlier this year in the One Big Beautiful Bill, along with the creation of a Golden Dome caucus in both the House and Senate. “Golden Dome will only be successful if we meet Presi-
dent Trump’s timeline,” said Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colo. “This means that is imperative that we, members and stakeholders, are well informed and working together to revolutionize missile defense of our great nation.”
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EMP Attack Would Kill Millions of Americans
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ne of the primary reasons the U.S. needs a Golden Dome is to prevent an electromagnetic pulse attack, which if
successful would kill millions of Americans over a short period of time. Instead of detonating when it hits the ground, an EMP
would explode about 200 miles above the U.S., Forstchen said, creating a gamma ray burst that triggers the Compton effect, defined as a burst of electromagnetic radiation that will produce damaging current and voltage surges. Those surges feed down into the upper and lower
atmospheres, growing in intensity until they hit the Earth’s surface at the speed of light. From there it feeds into the electric grid through millions of
miles of wiring and fries the nation’s power capacity. “We need a Golden Dome to protect against this,” Forstchen
said. “I’m particularly worried about North Korea, which has the nuclear warheads and the intercontinental ballistic missile capability. “The worse-case scenario would be three such weapons
detonated over the eastern, central, and western United States. It shorts out the grid and millions of people will perish the following year because of the loss of electricity.” Without power, municipal water systems would collapse and supply lines for food and pharmaceuticals would crash. “After about 20 days, your town is out of food, and then the
command and control starts with the bad guys coming to take whatever they want. It turns into a massive catastrophe.” — V.C.
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