fuagf, Did you have a difficult time following the interview? Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Executive Director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security was the one who made the comments Trump was stronger on EMP than others, not me. Your post proves the correctness of the information I posted. Thanks.
Newt Gingrich's comments were not directed toward Trump's handling of EMP policy, and his comments were from May, June, and October 2017. That was fairly early on in Trump's presidency. A lot has changed, for example, Rocket Man doesn't sound so tough anymore, we'll see.
Gingrich even stated a new start made sense.
From your post:
On Sept. 30, the Congressional Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack shut its doors after 16 years of operation.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who has been one of the most vocal proponents of taking the threat of EMP seriously, said he decided not to fight the commission’s closure after consulting experts. “People I trust who are very concerned [about the EMP threat] thought that we needed a fresh start,” he told Foreign Policy in an interview.
It seems like the unprecedented slow pace of Senate confirmations may have the most negative impact of EMP policy progress.
From your post:
Though the administration’s “instinct is to take all this very seriously,” the slow pace of political appointments has made addressing EMP nearly impossible, according to Gingrich.
And the Obama administration shut this program down.
From your post:
For several years during the George W. Bush administration, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had a program involving HAARP, an ionospheric research facility based in Alaska, to see if it was possible to clean up the killer electrons created by an EMP weapon. That experimental program was shut down around 2009, however.
Politics drove the Pentagon to close the program, Papadopoulos said. “It was ridiculous,” he told FP. “The excuse they used was ‘politically it might disturb Chinese if we find the solution to that problem.’”
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