Initiate the process of hardening the nation’s critical electricity infrastructure from electromagnetic radiation.

The risk of an electromagnetic event or EMP crippling the nation's energy grid represents a clear and present danger because its can have at least three equally difficult to predict origins. Two are from mother nature in the form of Solar flares and Gamma Ray Bursts the other is from the detonation of a nuclear or electromagnetic pulse weapon. Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security. “If you do a smart plan — the Congressional EMP Commission estimated that you could protect the whole country for about $2 billion,” “That’s what we give away in foreign aid to Pakistan every year.”