Perhaps the most devastating thing that could happen in any developed country would be widespread catastrophic damage to its electric power grid. Nearly everything in an industrialized nation relies ...

High-altitude balloons, such as the one China has floated over mountain state military bases this week, are considered a key “delivery platform” for secret nuclear strikes on America’s electric grid, ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is raising concerns that a nuclear-armed Iran could easily kill millions of Americans with a surprise attack on the U.S. electric grid, one of a handful of worries the Pentagon ...

A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) could disrupt modern life in seconds—but how exactly would it affect our power grid? This video breaks down the science behind a nuclear EMP, how it interacts ...

It wouldn't take a warhead to end modern civilization just a well-placed pulse. From high-altitude nuclear detonations to coronal mass ejections from the Sun, the U.S. power grid faces threats that ...

The widespread blackouts that recently brought parts of Spain and Portugal to a standstill triggered global speculation: was it an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack? Though authorities later ruled ...