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Roscoe Bartlett: “We don't have experience with losing the infrastructure in a country with 300 million people, most of whom don't live in…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2008
We don't have experience with losing the infrastructure in a country with 300 million people, most of whom don't live in a way that provides for their own food and other needs.
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Roscoe Bartlett
Maryland

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Discussing potential fatalities from an EMP attack on the U.S.

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