British Defence Secretary Liam Fox will next week attend a summit of scientists and security advisers who believe the infrastructure that underpins modern life in Western economies is potentially vulnerable to electromagnetic disruption.
NASA report on Sun solar Storm which was carried out for NASA by the US National Academy of Sciences in 2009 had also warned about upcoming solar Storm 2012 too.
Some scientists say there is a similar danger from a once-in-a-century solar flare, a disturbance on the surface of the sun that could cause geomagnetic storms on earth. A major flare in the mid-19th century blocked the nascent telegraph system, and some scientists believe that another such even is now overdue....read more>>>...