protecting military systems using surger and blocking devices and we can do the same thing. mark: what is that? a metal box that encloses the structure from the emp getting in at electronics. air force one is a gigantic farrahday cage. mark: and prevents the electromagnetices attacks. keeps the electronics inside safe. we can do the same thing for the electric grid. the emp estimated it would cost two to three billion. mark: for the entire grid? yes, the entire national grid, which is what we used to give away to foreign aid to pakistan until president trump stopped that exercise. if we took the foreign aid to pakistan mark: i don t understand, they spend over $4 trillion a year. yes. mark: the gao reports we waste
without nuclear weapons. they were trying to convince the world that nuclear weapons don t have utility. you need hundreds of them, never be able to compete with the united states. that s not true. any nation that gets just one bomb because of emp, basically becomes a nuclear superpower that could threaten the existence of the united states. it didn t fit into the narrative of a world without nuclear weapons. and didn t fit into the narrative about the iran nuclear deal. if iran had one bomb, okay, you know that would defeat the whole purpose of the iran nuclear deal because they wouldn t need dozens or hundreds of bombs, and the verification provisions which are so poor on the iran nuclear deal would be a mortal threat to the existence of the united states. i and other specialists think iran has already got the bomb and probably had one for some years and the capability to do an emp attack. this is something the obama administration didn t want known. didn t want to talk about. mark:
from emp, cyber, from all the threats we ve been talking about. the chief problem is nobody is in charge of protecting the critical infrastructures. we ve never thought about that. mark: what would we do for 2 or $3 billion? we would install farraday cages and blocking devices, you can put a surge arrester on the transformer. just like you have it on your computer to protect it from lightning, it will protect against lightning, nuclear emp, emp from the sun. had we done so, it could protect you against all of the worst-case scenarios, not just nuclear emp and cyber, but severe weather like hurricanes. millions of people or hundreds of thousands of people who are made homeless for months by hurricane sandy would have been able to go home earlier if the electric grid had been hardened against nuclear emp because it would have been able to survive the overvoltages that happened during hurricane sandy as a result of high power lines
business? the same preparedness that you have for a hurricane or any emergency situation, have a food supply, water supply, medicine. mark: what about the electrical attack on your house, can you have a room protected? you could. you could have a metal shed. mark: that s all it takes? you could have a if you have electrical equipment or medical equipment or communications equipment that you wanted to keep safe. if you had a metal garbage can with a tight fitting lid and put the equipment inside a plastic bag so it doesn t touch the inside, that would mitigate the effects. you should have an emergency generator at your house and don t put it on automatic, leave the switch on manual. so there are things. you could have solar panels which are inherently robust against emp anything to get you off the grid and makes you more self-sufficient would be a way of protecting yourself. and you can also protect your
called the blitzkrieg, a combined arms operation, combined armor with mobile artillery and airpower. part of the blitzkrieg strategy was a motorcycle corps. the motorcycle range out in front of the armored spearheads looking for weaknesses in the enemy lines. that s what the cyberattacks are now. they re the equivalent of a german motorcyclist sitting on a hill looking at the lines to see where is the response, gauging our responses as part of this. we don t get that we are under attack now by the cyberattacks. because behind the cyberattacks is a possibility of physical sabotage by commandos. non-nuclear emp weapons, so-called radio frequency weapons that can use emp all in combination with the ultimate cyberweapon. russia, china, north korean and iranian doctrine, a nuclear