Electromagnetic pulse?

This article seriously makes me think

"The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a Pentagon body focused on countering threats from nuclear weapons, has put out the call for new studies into the phenomenon, according to a notice from the agency posted in December. Specifically, DTRA wants to research “high-altitude weapons electromagnetic pulse effects modeling” for satellites."

About this article.

"When Roscoe Bartlett was in Congress, he latched onto a particularly apocalyptic issue, one almost no one else ever seemed to talk about: America’s dangerously vulnerable power grid. In speech after late-night speech on the House floor, Bartlett hectored the nearly empty chamber: If the United States doesn’t do something to protect the grid, and soon, a terrorist or an act of nature will put an end to life as we know it."

And I start wondering about serendipity, and just how well our grid infrastructure would handle something like that.

And I look at what the politicians in D.C. are doing and I wonder if we would be better off if we did go back to the dark ages for a few months to a few years.  Even with all the deaths that would be sure to occur.