If everyone had been educated about it, the same way Civil Defense had once been in the curriculum of every school back in the 1940s and 1950s, if people had known the simple things to do on Day One and Charlie had already been trained to react to an EMP, mobilize his forces, and react quickly … if they had but a few simple provisions stocked away, the same way anyone who lives in hurricane or tornado country does, would they be in this mess? The crime, the real crime, was those who truly knew the level of threat doing nothing to prepare or prevent it. Bitterly he wondered if they were
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