Roscoe Bartlett: “I wanted to present it in Russian because I did not want Members to think that I was telling the Russians something they…”

“I wanted to present it in Russian because I did not want Members to think that I was telling the Russians something they did not know about our vulnerability. The first of these will show a page from a Russian journal which shows an EMP attack on our country. What Members will see is Russian language, and they will see something which looks like the sun with some rays coming from it, and then Members will see what it does. What it does is disrupt our communication system and disrupt our power system. See the one on the right is in Russian. What it does is melt all of our microelectronics, including our computers. If we think about our power grid and communications grid, if we melt down the computers, we do not have a power and communications grid. All that needs to be done is to detonate a nuclear weapon high above the atmosphere, and what is produced is something equivalent to a simultaneous lightning strike everywhere in the country, or enormous static electricity. This is many, many times as powerful as the pulses we get from that solar storm.”