GINGRICH: I think we should be very worried. My good friend and co-author Bill Fortune just wrote a book called “One Second After,” which is a novel about what happens with an electromagnetic pulse attack.

There’s no question that the newest kind of nuclear weapons — three of them at the right altitude — could eliminate all electricity production in the United States, which includes your car.

It would mean that basically we would go back to a preindustrial era overnight, in seconds. It’s a very serious threat.

I don’t think North Korea should be allowed to launch missiles. I think we should take whatever preemptive actions are necessary.

The idea that we’re going to suddenly be shocked one morning as one of these missiles has a nuclear weapon and does something that dramatically changes America I think is a very dangerous idea.

And I find it very difficult to watch the U.S. government be passive as the North Korean dictatorship continues to develop its capacity to deliver nuclear weapons.

Gingrich Interview
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