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Lights out : a cyberattack, a nation unprepared, surviving the aftermath

Koppel, Ted, 1940- (author.).

Summary: Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or months and affecting tens of millions of people over several states. Koppel believes that a well-designed attack on just one of the nation's three electric power grids could cripple much of our infrastructure-- and in the age of cyberwarfare, a laptop has become the only necessary weapon. And the federal government, while well prepared for natural disasters, has no plan for the aftermath of an attack on the power grid. How, Koppel asks, will ordinary civilians survive?

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  • ISBN: 080419484X
  • ISBN: 9780804194846
  • Physical Description: viii, 356 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First large print edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2015]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-324) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Part I: A Cyberattack -- 1. Warfare 2.0 -- 2. AK-47s and EMPs -- 3. Regulation Gridlock -- 4. Attack Surfaces -- 5. Guardians of the Grid -- 6. What Are the Odds? -- 7. Preparing the Battlefield -- 8. Independent Actors -- Part II: A Nation Unprepared -- 9. Step Up, Step Down -- 10. Extra Batteries -- 11. State of Emergency -- 12. Press Six If You've Been Affected by a Disaster -- Part III: Surviving the Aftermath -- 13. The Ark Builders -- 14. Some Men Are an Island -- 15. Where the Buffalo Roamed -- 16. The Mormons -- 17. State of Deseret -- 18. Constructive Ambiguity -- 19. Solutions -- 20. Summing Up -- Epilogue: The Virtue of a Plan.

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Subject: Self-reliant living United States
Preparedness
Cyberterrorism United States
Emergency management United States
Electric utilities Security measures United States
Genre: Large type books.

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