Department of Continuity of Services

"But what could somebody in this position do? Something, more than nothing. The is a huge gap in our security and safety and will be until we do something."

With all of the cabinet positions, czar positions, and administration positions, one very important area is lacking. Let me first take a trip in the way back machine. During the time we were testing atomic bombs, we noticed something very unsettling. There was a side effect of an atomic blast which went beyond the poison of radiation. EMP. The EMP coming from an atomic blast could zero out some electrical items. It could stop power from coming into a house. Little did the powers that be know it back then, but EMP could end up being a major killer.

In the 1980's when I was still in the Navy, EMP was a well-known problem. We knew how to weaponize it; the Russians knew how to weaponize it. We also knew it we had an EMP attack, it could kill 90% of our population. But that was then, and this is now. Today, should we have an EMP attack, we could lose 90% of our population. See the problem here? What have we done to protect our people in case of an EMP attack? Nada. Just take the pain and hope you are in the 10% group.

If we do have an EMP event, either natural or otherwise, it is not just our electrical grid which will fail. News flash: Everything we have runs on electricity. That means heat, water, sewer, phone, internet, and so forth. If and EMP event takes out our grid, our life would devolve back to the stone ages. How long would it take the survivors to restore services? Decades.

We need a department in government which could address continuity of services in time of emergency. This it just as important as any other branch (maybe more so) of government. How far have we come since I was in the Navy in the 1980's? Inches, at best. But what could somebody in this position do? Something, more than nothing. The is a huge gap in our security and safety and will be until we do something.