Ron Johnson: “I've been now briefed on, the threat of emp, both in terms…”

“Secretary Spalding, you talked about critical infrastructure. You talked about what is our physical and cyber threats. To that I want to talk about something that I've been now briefed on, the threat of emp, both in terms of a high altitude nuclear blast... and a massive solar flare also represents a real threat. I guess kind of hoping that nobody has the capability or wouldn't be stupid enough to do it, but now also aware of the fact that a massive solar flare also represents a real threat.” (06:26–06:48)

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