The Alaska State Emergency Response Commission was briefed by FEMA and the Institute of the North, based in Anchorage, on the dangers from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack delivered by a ballistic missile. Nuclear missiles, when detonated anywhere from a quarter of a mile to 300 miles in the sky, can create an electromagnetic pulse capable of wiping out power grids.
On January 6th, 2010 they conducted an emergency response plan that created a simulated “countrywide crisis attack” originating from Washington, DC.
