About EMPACT America, Inc.
EMPACT America is a bipartisan, non-profit (with IRS 501(c)4 status) organization for citizens concerned about protecting the American people from a nuclear or natural electromagnetic pulse (EMP) catastrophe. Two Congressional Commissions, the EMP Commission and the Strategic Posture Commission, have warned that terrorists, rogue states, China and Russia could, using a single crude nuclear weapon delivered by a primitive missile, inflict an EMP attack that would cause the collapse of critical civilian infrastructures--such as infrastructures for electric power, telecommunications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water--across the entire continental United States, that are vital alike for the sustenance of our modern society and the survival of its citizens.

Moreover, the EMP Commission and the National Academy of Sciences warn that a catastrophic EMP event can also occur

naturally, from a great geomagnetic storm, with effects virtually identical to those of a nuclear EMP attack, and that such a storm is inevitable, occurring every century or so. Great geomagnetic storms have occurred in the past, but not since the advent of the modern electronic age. Some scientists estimate that the world is overdue for a great geomagnetic storm, that could occur during the next cycle of solar activity, in 2012.

Fortunately, the EMP Commission, which terminated in 2008, produced a plan that could, within 3-5 years and at modest cost, protect U.S critical infrastructures and the American people from a nuclear or natural EMP catastrophe, and would also mitigate the full spectrum of threats to the critical infrastructures-- including from cyber attack, sabotage, and common natural disasters like hurricanes.

EMPACT America has the following missions:

• Re-establish the EMP Commission to advise Congress and the Departments and Agencies of the U.S. government;

• Implement the EMP Commission recommendations to protect civilian critical infrastructures on an accelerated basis;

• Educate the American people on the EMP threat and solutions;

• Organize the American people to act effectively in furtherance of their security from the EMP threat at the federal, state, local, and individual levels; and

• Initiate pilot programs in Western New York State to increase EMP preparedness among first responders, communities, utilities, businesses, and universities, to serve as examples for the nation, and to show that leadership on national and homeland security need not originate in Washington, that the American people can lead “from the bottom up.”