Wednesday, February 23

One Second After

One second after an EMP hits, it will be too late to ask the two questions that matter most: What should we have done to be prepared, and why didn't we do it?
Epilogue, One Second After


I believe it is a testament to human ingenuity that we can write and read novels that speak hard truth more effectively and soberly than a non-fiction manual ever could.

I wept more than once over these pages, forced to viscerally confront realities that all my survival- minded preparedness reading has made evident, but previously allowed me to keep at arm's length.

An EMP - ElectroMagnetic Pulse weapon - could, in a split second and without warning, throw the entire United States back into medieval times, without hope for true rescue, restoration or recovery. Over 80% of our population would die in less than a year and we would be faced with horrors few of us can actually comprehend. The threat of such an attack already exists. We should already have been preparing for it for years.

Make time to read this book; keep some tissues nearby. It will change how you look at the world. Permanently.

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