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On the recordMay 7, 2014
We talk a lot about a nuclear bomb in Manhattan, and we talk about a cybersecurity threat, the grid, power grid, in the Northeast, and all these things would actually probably pale in comparison to the devastation that an EMP attack could perpetrate on Americans.
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Mike McCaul
Republican · Texas

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McCaul compares EMP threats to other security concerns, highlighting their potential devastation.

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