R.E. McDermott
ASIN: B015M2IVME
Publisher: R.E. McDermott
Pages: 352
A FRIGHTENINGLY REALISTIC TALE OF HARDSHIP, HEROISM, AND HOPE. A massive solar flare... A devastating global blackout ... An unprecedented societal change. Nothing will ever be the same again. What if the lights go out? For good. Would you survive? In a 2015 investigation for The New York Times, veteran reporter Ted Koppel postulated that a major cyber attack on the nation's power grid was not only possible but likely, and that the United States was woefully unprepared. In Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Koppel's best-selling companion book to the Times investigation, he described the likely aftermath of such an attack in sobering detail. Lights Out was widely praised in the media as 'an eye-opener' and received accolades from leaders of both industry and government. It was named an Amazon Best Book for 2015. Yet despite the accolades and the supposedly 'raised ...