Having worked for many years in the field of HEMP protection of critical civilian electrical equipment, I have had the opportunity to read hundreds of reports and articles on this topic, take part in conferences, and correspond with the world's leading experts in this field. As I progressed in this field, I accumulated more and more questions and doubts that I could not get answers to from leading experts.
The main question and the main paradox are that in the presence of hundreds of reports written over more than 50 years by dozens of the world's leading corporations and the availability of hundreds of types of all kinds of HEMP protection means on the free market, the critical infrastructure of all countries of the world without exception remains unprotected.
Two small substations in the United States, partially equipped with protective equipment many years ago, do not count. In addition, for some reason, these means of protection are treated there as top-secret information, not allowing anything to be photographed and recorded even by rare visitors who have special permission to visit these substations.
And when I asked a question about this strange situation to the head of one of the American consulting companies specializing in this field, I was accused of asking provocative questions specifically to discredit this company, and also demanded to apologize! Isn't that a paradox?
Gradually, I gathered a fairly large collection of all sorts of paradoxes in this area and a fairly complete picture of the current situation appeared, including expensive fakes, bureaucratic tricks and a complete lack of desire for a real solution to the problem.
It is likely that some EMP professionals, government officials, executives of energy, water and communications companies are not fully aware of the situation and do not understand the reason for this state of affairs. This is confirmed by the numerous perplexed statements of such leaders.
Especially for the above-mentioned category of managers, as well as for all those interested in this topic, I wrote this small book, in which I analyzed the current paradoxical situation and presented recommendations for correcting the situation.
Specific technical solutions to protect critical infrastructure from EMP have been described in my previously published books.
I hope that my work will not be in vain.
