As Americans this week recalled Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 150 years ago and we remember the Maine 20th Regiment in the battle for Little Round Top, we see an interesting parallel. Maine citizens again have the potential to lead to the protection of all Americans from the existential threat posed by manmade or natural electromagnetic pulse (EMP). So may it be. Read Full Story
Congratulations to Maine State Representative Andrea Boland (D-Sanford) and all who supported her initiative: Act LD-131, now the law in Maine. Hopefully, representatives in other states will follow with similar initiatives—and Washington’s “powers that be” will implement recommendations of the 2004 and 2008 reports from the congressionally mandated EMP Commission with initiatives to end America’s vulnerability to the existential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threat! Read Full Story
Congratulations to Maine State Representative Andrea Boland (D-Sanford) and all who supported her initiative—Act LD-131 became law on the 69th anniversary of the D-Day Normandy invasion that was the beginning of the end for Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime in World War II. May June 6, 2013 be remembered as the beginning of the end of America’s vulnerability to the existential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threat! Read Full Story
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