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foraging skills and a well-illustrated guide to wild edible plants in your area, or a
large surplus stock of valuable survival goods to use for trade and barter.
I can assure you that a civilization-disrupting solar super storm is guaranteed to happen.
Since there have been at least two such events in the past 160 years, it is sure to happen again.
Nobody knows when it will happen, but it is just a matter of time. Whether or not a crippling
EMP event will ever occur is dependent upon human free will. Most people who analyze these
things believe the odds are somewhere in the range of 50-70 percent that a terrorist organiza-
tion, or rogue state, will launch such an attack on the United States, and its effects will be dev-
astating to a large population covering a huge area. At the minimum, this will be on a par with
the scope of the area crippled by Hurricane Katrina, and at the other end of the spectrum fo-
menting the collapse of our entire country.
For more information on EMPs and solar storms, you may download the government re-
ports mentioned earlier (see the bibliography for specific report information), and there are nu-
merous articles and Web sites that are devoted to these subjects. One such Web site, which is
posted by an electrical engineer and includes numerous valuable links, is
