The Weapon That Could Shut Down America

�For the Record� Explores the Weapon That Could Shut Down America

What kind of weapon could wipe out food and medicine distribution, force America into a slumber for decades, make planes fall from the sky, permanently shut down the U.S. electrical grid, sever communications systems and lead to the deaths of millions?

TheBlaze TV For the Record Investigates the Weapon That Could Shut Down America | EMP

In this image made from KRT video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a massive celebration marking the 100th birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung, Sunday, April 15, 2012, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP)

It�s called an electromagnetic pulse weapon, or EMP. Wednesday�s new episode of TheBlaze TV�s For The Record, Blackout (8:30 p.m. ET), reveals the very real threat America faces if such a weapon were detonated above the nation�s skies.

Multiple senior U.S. officials, lawmakers, military personnel and intelligence analysts say the Obama administration needs to take this threat seriously and prepare in the event an attack that would set the U.S. back to pre-industrial times and leave us vulnerable to enemy states.

James Woolsey, who served as CIA director from 1993 to 1995, told �For The Record� that 9/11 was a wake-up call that enemies of the United States were looking to launch massive attacks.

He said senior government officials began thinking outside the box and questioned what �if the government in North Korea or in Iran really thought that the world would be so much a better place and that they themselves would be so much more likely to go to heaven if they could just kill as many Americans as possible?�

�These guys lusted after massive destruction,� Woolsey told �For the Record.�

North Korea presents that very real threat. In 2011, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. would shift the focus of its military might from the Middle East to Asia.

If you're not ready you're family has very little

chance of surviving the coming storm.

Luckily there is one concerned Patriot who's

taking action and is willing to help you right now.