TED KOPPEL DETAILS BIGGEST UNTACKLED U.S. SECURITY THREAT – A POWER GRID HACKING – IN NEW BOOK

With every mass shooting and terrorist attack the occurs, we expect our government will increase security to keep us safe. We see it at airports and public gatherings, but according to Ted Koppel, one of the world’s most experienced and respected journalists, there’s one place that no one is looking. He first heard about the national security weak spot years ago. He looked into whether it was real. Then he checked what the government was doing about it. It all led to his new book.

“Darkness. Extended periods of darkness, longer and more profound than anyone now living in one of America’s greatest cities has ever known.” Those are the opening words of Koppel’s new book “Light’s Out.”

“It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” he said about the two years he spent writing it.

Koppel retired after 42 years at ABC News — 25 of those years at the helm of the program Nightline — and has been investigating what would happen if cyber hackers got inside our nation’s power grids. For the full article click here 

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