If you and the parrots below had your heads out of your butts you'd have read the books and articles over recent years that detailed just how such an attack could happen. Don't need no stinkin ICBM, a ship-borne, high altitude launch from the Gulf of Mexico could do it. A high, mid-country detonation wouldn't kill many of us, but a year without electricity (fuel, medicine, communications, computers, food, etc.) would -- about 90% of us. (BTW, exactly how do you think WallyWorld and your local grocery stores stock their shelves, by magic?) For about as much foreign aid as we send to Pakistan each year, we could largely fix our vulnerability to such an EMP attack. Our fearless leaders know this. If they'd get off their sorry butts, we might be able to do just that before it's too late. Sign me as one of the "90 percenters."