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How Big a Threat is an Electromagnetic Attack?

Associated Press

   NEW YORK - When much of Venezuela was plunged into darkness after a
   massive blackout this week, President Nicolás Maduro blamed the power
   outage on an "electromagnetic attack" carried out by the U.S.

   The claim was met with skepticism. Blackouts are a regrettably frequent
   part of life in Venezuela, where the electric grid has fallen into
   serious disrepair. And Maduro's administration provided no evidence of
   an electromagnetic attack.

   "In Venezuela, it's a lot easier for him to say we did something to him
   than he did it to himself," said Sharon Burke, senior adviser at New
   America, a nonpartisan think tank, and former assistant secretary of
   defense for operational energy at the Department of Defense. "Their
   grid, it's decrepit. It's been in very poor shape. They've been
   starving their infrastructure for years."

   Nevertheless, Maduro's claim has raised questions over what exactly is
   an electromagnetic attack, how likely is it to occur and what impact
   could it have.
   

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