Why does the EMP threat warrant another Manhattan Project? Appended to my book are some of the most recent unclassified reports of the Congressional EMP Commission that provides the most definitive assessment of the EMP threat and solutions for purposes of public policy. EMP Commission Chairman Dr. William Graham, warns an EMP event causing a nationwide blackout lasting one year could kill up to 90 percent of the American people. An EMP catastrophe could, figuratively and literally, turn out the lights across entire nations and be the advent of a new Dark Ages. Worth quoting at length is the Congressional EMP Commission’s 2017 Executive Summary “Assessing the Threat from Electromagnetic Pulse” – Newsmax Photo: David Neale / Legacy National Grid Substation / CC BY-SA 2.0