{"id":29003,"date":"2012-05-15T19:26:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T02:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=29003"},"modified":"2012-05-28T09:47:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T16:47:29","slug":"u-s-remains-vulnerable-to-an-emp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/u-s-remains-vulnerable-to-an-emp\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Remains Vulnerable to an EMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article recently published by the Los Angeles Times discusses how solar storms pose a grave threat to Earth. Mike Hapgood, a space weather scientist in England, says that the world is unprepared for such a storm, and one is likely to occur soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Foundation has led a vital campaign aimed at informing the American public about the seriousness of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks. An EMP is typically described as occurring when a nuclear weapon is detonated at a high altitude, resulting in a high-intensity burst of electromagnetic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charged particles. The second scenario involves massive explosions on the sun\u2019s surface (\u201cspace weather\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2012\/05\/12\/u-s-remains-vulnerable-to-an-emp\/\">U.S. Remains Vulnerable to an EMP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=6b316e41-65bd-4cd4-8082-3f9adeb792ba\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article recently published by the Los Angeles Times discusses how solar storms pose a grave threat to Earth. Mike Hapgood, a space weather scientist in England, says that the world is unprepared for such a storm, and one is likely to occur soon. The Heritage Foundation has led a vital campaign aimed at informing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[717],"tags":[2129,2135,7519,9055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29003"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29068,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29003\/revisions\/29068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}