Lights Out Ted Koppel Reviews

Koppel paints a vivid picture of this scenario and lays out a technical but comprehensible map on how it could actually occur.

Lights out ted koppel reviews.

While the federal government may be underprepared to aid citizens in a grid down scenario koppel traverses the nation to find those who have exemplified personal preparedness measures for a myriad of disaster scenarios. Award winning journalist and longtime nightline anchor koppel off camera. Private thoughts made public 2000 etc sounds the alarm over the likelihood of a devastating cyberattack on the infrastructure of the united states. Lights out was a fascinating if terrifying expose on the possibility and repercussions of a terrorist cyberattack on the u s.

Lights out is both an acknowledgement of the power grid s vulnerability as well as a call to action to for the government and its citizens. In my view lights out. Koppel considers the catastrophic consequences of a long term collapse in one of america s three electric power grids resulting from a cyberattack or an act of war. Ted koppel explains the weaknesses in our power grid system and lists the many terrorist organizations that could attack the u s.