Blaine DeSantis's Reviews > One Second After

Some books get a 5***** rating due to their shear literary greatness, others because they are genre leaders, but the book One Second After gets my 5***** rating due to the sheer realism of the book, and the extremely possible doomsday scenario it sets forth.
America, without even knowing it, was under attack when a nuclear missile explodes in the atmosphere and "one second after" all electrical power is lost in the country. It is a doomsday scenario that is, unfortunately, all too possible and can occur,as here, with an Electro Magnetic Pulse or via a severe coronal burst of our sun sending harmful electro magnetic charges towards earth. No matter which way it comes, it is lethal to any country and any countries way of life.
Not much of a doomsday/suvivalist lit guy, but this book was a way too powerful wake up call about the dangers we face in our modern electronic driven world. It is a book that we should all read and take into consideration. Our grandparents and great grandparents faced the hardships we would now encounter, but had a better infrastructure and ability to live without an electricity driven society. I do not advocate a back to grass roots, back to the beginning style change in our lives, but we all need to realize how dependent we are upon electricity and if the power went down via an EMP attack, so would our country.
I am not about to review the actual details of the book, but every person needs to realize that we are so dependent on our food and medical supply chain, all of which shuts down if there is no electricity, as well as how precariously we live in a world dominated by push button controls and computers that have taken over all aspects of our lives.
This book really made me concerned about what our country and others are doing to avoid such problems. The same day the 9/11 Commission came out with their report the Congressional Commission dealing with Electro Magnetic Pulse issues came out with their report. One report we focused upon, and the other was buried. Guess which one is a actually a bigger threat to our lives and lifestyles???