Category Archives: Gulf of Mexico Missile Defense

A Cuban Missile Crisis For Today

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On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy announced the Soviets were deploying nuclear weapons in Cuba. In those 13 days of crisis, we were closer to the brink of nuclear holocaust than we then realized. Now we could face a new crisis from the south—from ballistic missiles launched from ships in the Gulf of Mexico or Venezuela. Read Full Story

An Open Letter to Citizens of the Coastal States around the Gulf of Mexico

An Open Letter to Citizens of the Coastal States around the Gulf of Mexico

by on in Aegis Ashore, Electromagnetic Pulse, EMP Threat, Gulf of Mexico Missile Defense, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier

If you live near the Gulf of Mexico, you are the front line to an eminent threat to all Americans. The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from a nuclear weapon exploded a hundred miles above the U.S. could kill 60-90 percent of all Americans. The powers that be should urgently address this well known threat that could be launched by Iran or Terrorists from a ship in the Gulf. By Ambassador Cooper. Read Full Story

Key Reports

Independent Working Group Report

EMP Commission Reports

The Rise and Fall of Brillant Pebbles

Key Videos

Help Us Prevent an EMP Attack

Heritage Foundation Roundtable on EMP

Key Partners

Center for Security Policy

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis

Heritage Foundation

Claremont Institute

Marshall Institute

Institute of the North

American Foreign Policy Council

Key Policy Briefs

We will be adding key policy briefs as we progress.