Dr Peter Vincent Pry -- EMP Action, Too Little Too Late? --

Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, "EMP Action, Too Little Too Late?"

Dupont Summit 2012 on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Issues
Policy Studies Organization, InfraGard National EMP SIG Sessions

Dr. Pry and Congressman Roscoe Bartlett: Dr. Peter Pry, formerly a CIA analyst and staff to Congressman Bartlett and the EMP Commission he helped launch, reviewed the history of those trying to address this issue beginning with the formation of the EMP Commission to current day attempts at legislation to address the issues. He introduced Congressman Roscoe Bartlett who noted that just as people think some things are "just too good to be true", that similarly, "other things are just too bad to be true" claiming that EMP and these high-impact threats are examples of the latter. Congressman Bartlett's long-term history of wrestling with high-impact threats to infrastructure such as the electric power grids parallels his long standing congressional leadership in energy security and the role of renewable energy. Congressman Bartlett reviewed the history of his involvement of both high-impact threats to critical infrastructure with special emphasis on manmade EMP and space weather along with his related interest in energy security. He answered audience questions and led questioning of other presenters throughout the morning session.

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