A very serious event occurs that is possibly an act of warfare. It would be a modality of warfare hugely more threatening than the suicide bomber. Because nothing happened to us, we pay little attention.

Power grids are interconnected so massive failure in a few can cause a cascade of failures in those connected. Exactly what would it take to turn off all the electic power all over America? There are specific answers to that question based on knowledge we already have. It is also worth remembering that sometimes when you do something really terrible like fly a passenger jet into a tall building, you get even more terrible results than you had planned-like the building actually falling down.

Suppose a coordinated attack seeking to interrupt electric service in multiple areas of the country. Now really stretch your imagination and suppose that that terrible attack had an even more terrible result. The grid got fried. Not fixable in a week or a month.

Maybe the first thing we should do is pay attention to all this and get in gear to deal with it. A little media coverage wouldn’t hurt.