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Dr. Graham was a member of the Rumsfeld Commission on Space and served as Science Advisor to President Reagan and Chairman of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. Dr. Graham has also served on the Defense Science Board. He was Chairman of the SDI Advisory Committee and Deputy Administrator of NASA. Dr. Graham chaired the EMP Commission for eight years and is widely considered to be the free world's foremost expert on electromagnetic pulse. You can listen to the recording of Dr. Graham's first appearance on EMPact Radio by clicking here.

Kevin Cogan is an independent consultant who spends a significant portion of his time as a Rotary International volunteer involved in providing clean water and sanitation to third world countries, primarily in Central America. His observation is that following a catastrophic loss of the electric and information grids, society as we know it in the U.S. becomes like the villages he visits in the mountains of Honduras. Daily life there today is an arduous search for water and cooking fuel. Sanitation systems are mostly non-existent. When that time comes for us, the table will be turned to where we have a lot to learn from pre-modern societies in order to sustain ourselves without advanced infrastructures. What should we know now to prepare? How will we purify water? How can we efficiently cook our food and dispose of our waste? Kevin Cogan is a retired 30-year Army communications officer and holds a masters degree in electrical engineering. Following his military career, he taught emerging technology courses at the U.S. Army War College where he held the General Broehon Burke Somervell Chair of Management. He is a certified Department of Defense project manager.

Dr. Pry and Ross are REJOINED by Retired Vice Admiral Robert Monroe. Admiral Monroe enlisted in the Navy during World War II. He served in destroyers, minesweepers, cruisers, and amphibious assault ships, including three commands at sea. He subsequently served in flag rank for eleven years. As a Rear Admiral he commanded the South Atlantic Force; U.S. Atlantic Fleet; directed Navy Systems Analysis; and commanded the Navy's Operational Test and Evaluation Force. From 1977 until 1980 Vice Admiral Monroe was Director of the Defense Nuclear Agency, responsible for many of DOD's nuclear weapons activities, including stockpile management, safety, security, and survivability. He managed the U.S. national program for research into the effects of nuclear weapons, determining the vulnerabilities, "hardness," and survivability of U.S. weapons and C3 systems by means of underground nuclear tests, kiloton-level high-explosive tests, advanced simulators, and other means. He played a major role in directing DOD's four-year response to President Carter's proposed Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. From 1980 until 1983 Vice Admiral Monroe was Director of Navy Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E). In this position he had planning and oversight responsibility for all major Navy RDT&E programs for weapons and C3 systems, strategic and tactical. He also was responsible for establishing, allocating, and managing the Navy's RDT&E budget. Robert now serves as a member of numerous advisory boards for the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of State, NASA, and other government and private organizations. He will take your calls and answer email chat questions. Tune in!

An attorney, decorated intelligence officer and noted specialist on Islamic law, ideology and related strategic information programs, Stephen C. Coughlin is a Visiting Fellow of IASC’s National Security Law Project. Mr. Coughlin integrates experience in international law, intelligence, strategic communications and high-level project management in both the national defense and private sectors to develop unique perspectives, assessments and training packages relating to the intersection of national security and law. Often cited as the Pentagon’s leading expert on Islamic law, Coughlin is in demand as a lecturer at leading Defense training institutions, including the Naval War College, Marine Corps HQ-Quantico, and at Staff, Command and Division levels, as well as for the FBI and other agencies and private sector groups. A Major in the United States Army (res.), assigned to USCENTCOM, with a military intelligence specialty, Coughlin has served in a strategic communications role in CENTCOM-Doha. U.S. assignments have included attachment to the Pentagon’s National Military Joint Intelligence Center, the National Security Council’s Interagency Perception Management Threat Panel, and culminating in his assignment to the intelligence staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Coughlin’s work has included counter-propaganda, open source intelligence cell and support of the State Department and other agencies in Strategic Information Fusion, as well as target development in the immediate post-9/11 period.

This episode is a special broadcast of Empact America’s coverage the new EMP Congressional Caucus. This episode is being hosted by Ross Howarth, but will not be a call-in show. At the request of the EMP Caucus’s co-sponsors, EMPact America was in Washington to cover the launch the Congressional Caucus on EMP and help educate those who attended – of course, we were overjoyed and happy to help. The EMP Caucus launch took place on February 15th, 2011, in the U.S Capital Visitor’s Center. During this special episode, you’ll be able to listen to the official launch and the statements made by sponsoring members of Congress, as well as EMPact America’s President (and the host of the Dr. Peter Vincent Pry Show), Dr. Peter Vincent Pry. You’ll also hear Congressman Trent Franks official announcement of the SHIELD Act, HR 668, the new and improved version of the GRID Act that unanimously passed in the House and came agonizingly close to being passed in the Senate last year – and, Ross will explain how you can use the tools on EMPact America’s website to send messages to your Congressman and your Senator in support of the Shield Act, so that we can get it through committee and passed as soon as possible. We encourage listeners to submit any questions that you may have via email to radio@empactamerica.org. You can also call EMPact America Headquarters directly at (716) 435-7873, or write to us at EMPact America, Inc., P.O. Box 124, Elma, NY 14059. The best part of our show, and our organization, is you, and we want to help and support YOUR efforts to protect the country and your family as best as we can – so please do not hesitate to contact us with questions, comments, advice or requests.

Jim RawlesJim Rawles knows that it would only take one unthinkable event to disrupt our way of life –- whether an EMP, terrorist attack, a global pandemic, or sharp currency devaluation--you and your family may be forced to fend for yourself in ways you've never imagined. Where would you get water? How would you communicate with relatives who live in other states? What would you use for fuel? Survivalist expert James Wesley, Rawles, author of How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times, the novel Patriots and editor of SurvivalBlog.com, is returning to EMPact Radio’s Peter Vincent Pry show to answer questions and share some insights about the essential tools and skills you might need to survive in a “grid-down” environment. You can listen to the recording of Jim's prior appearance on EMPact Radio by clicking here.

Dr. William Van Cleave, a truly monumental and historic figure, is among a handful of strategic thinkers most responsible for U.S. victory over the USSR during the Cold War. Van Cleave served as President Reagan's Senior Defense Advisor during his presidential campaign, ran the Defense Transition Team that staffed Reagan's Department of Defense and national security apparatus, and basically educated President Reagan on how to win the Cold War. Van Cleave served on the original B-Team that proved the CIA was underestimating the Soviet nuclear threat, helped expose Soviet arms control violations as a member of President Reagan's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control, was a leader of the Committee on the Present Danger that reversed the Cold War decline of U.S. military power, and served in the historic Strategic Arms Limitation Talks that launched the first major arms control treaties of the Cold War. But perhaps Van Cleave's greatest legacy is as a teacher. He founded the Defense and Strategic Studies Program at the University of Southern California, now in Washington, DC, that has trained an entire generation of policymakers, military officers, defense and intelligence analysts, on how to think strategically. This episode with Dr. Van Cleave will "go to the mountain" with our visionary guest, and elicit his views on America's current strategic predicament--New START, the War on Terrorism, Iran, North Korea, the EMP threat--and what we should be doing to prevail.

Clare Lopez is a former CIA officer serving in the Directorate of Operations, currently is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy and Vice President of the Intelligence Summit. She is an expert on counterrorism, the Middle East, and national security. Clare is also one of the leaders of the Iranium documentary, that has stirred such controversy in Canada--including threats from radical Islamists to prevent the showing of Iranium. As Iranium will be shown in New York on February 8, our discussion of the documentary will be a great follow-up.

Peter S. Probst served most of his 30-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Office of the Secretary of Defense addressing future terrorist threats and the development of strategies, tactics and policy initiatives to counter them. He also co-authored a provocative major study, "Terror-2000: The Future Face of Terrorism". He is now a private consultant advising government and Fortune 100 business leaders on the issues of terrorism, political warfare, and infrastructure vulnerability. A highly articulate public speaker, Mr. Probst is often asked to address government, private sector and academic audiences on issues pertaining to intelligence, terrorism, and asymmetric conflict.

David J. Trachtenberg Mr. David J. Trachtenberg is an independent consultant in national security affairs and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Shortwaver Consulting, LLC. He has more than 25 years of public policy experience in the private sector and the Executive and Legislative branches of government. From 2005-2007 he was Vice President of ACI International and Division Manager of the Strategic Analysis Division at CACI-NSR, Inc. From 2003-2005 he was Senior Vice President for Homeland Security and Senior Vice President for Corporate Support at National Security Research, Inc. You can listen to the recording of Mr. Trachtenberg's previous appearance on EMPact Radio by clicking here.

John Kappenman John Kappenman is one of the principle investigators under contract with the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP Commission). Mr. Kappenman has presented testimony before the US House Science Committee in October 2003 on the importance of geomagnetic storm forecasting for the electric power industry. He also was a principal investigator examining the “Vulnerability of the Electric Power Grid for Severe Geomagnetic Storms” for FEMA under US Presidential Executive Order 13407. He was also one of the Principal Contributors to the 2008 US National Academy of Sciences Report on “Severe Space Weather Events—Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts Workshop Report Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of Severe Space Weather Events” He is a member of the IEC Standards Development Committee for all EMP and High Energy Electomagnetic Compatibility Requirements. You can listen to the recording of Mr. Kappenman's previous appearance on EMPact Radio by clicking here.

Peter Huessy   Dr. Pry and Ross are re-joined by Mr. Peter Huessy, President of the defense consulting firm, GeoStrategic Analysis, founded in 1981. He serves as consultant to a number of defense clients monitoring budget and policy developments on missile defense and related matters. Since 1983, he has hosted more than 750 Congressional breakfast seminars, addressing missile defense, strategic nuclear modernization, arms control and defense policy.    Mr. Huessy will be coming back on the show to discuss electromagnetic pulse (EMP), the New START treaty, state-sponsored terrorism, terror-masters and their accomplices, and other national security topics. Read Mr. Huessy's bio on our web site: www.empactamerica.org.   You can listen to the recording of our show from Mr. Huessy's previous appearance by clicking here.   In the last segment of the show, we'll continue the discussion about ways individuals can be prepared for emergencies, and this week we'll be focusing on food. Please visit our web forum to look at some of the resources we've posted, post your own questions, or answer other members' questions. Our web forum is located at www.empactamerica.org/forum.  

Michael Del Rosso Michael Del Rosso is an accomplished technology executive whose career spans 30 years. He has served as CEO and CTO of large public companies and early stage companies. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), past Chairman of the IEEE-USA Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC), a 2006 Lincoln Fellow at The Claremont Institute where he is presently Research Fellow in National Security Policy, Senior Fellow for Homeland and National Security at the Center for Security Policy, and has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He has contributed to Department of Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection and information security initiatives, and has designed and implemented technology solutions for the commercial, intelligence, and defense marketplaces. He has broad technical expertise and fundamental design experience, including issued and pending patents, in the areas of system-of-systems architectures; storage, knowledge, and content management systems design; operating system internals; real-time systems; data communications & telephony; identity management; computer security; disaster recovery; critical infrastructure protection; information warfare and cyber-terrorism.

Join EMPact Radio for a retrospective review of what has happened in 2010. Dr. Peter Vincent Pry was the Director of the United States Nuclear Strategy Forum, he sat on the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack (also commonly known as the EMP Commission), as Professional Staff on the House Armed Services Committee of the U.S. Congress, with portfolios in nuclear strategy, WMD, Russia and servedc in the CIA for over ten years.

Congressman Roscoe Bartlett Dr. Peter Vincent Pry and Ross Howarth welcome back to the show EMP giant in the House of Representatives, nine-term Congressman Roscoe Bartlett. One of only three scientists in Congress, Rep. Bartlett represents the sixth Congressional District of Maryland. To read more of Rep. Bartlett's biography, please visit our web site: www.EMPactAmerica.org. You can listen to the recording of the episode when Rep. Bartlett was our guest on the show by clicking here. Congressman Bartlett has been one of the strongest voices to protect our nation from an EMP for decades. Tune in!