Imagining Black Sky Hazards

Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) events pose a significant threat to critical infrastructure systems worldwide. These high-intensity bursts of electromagnetic energy can be caused by natural phenomena like solar storms or human-made events, such as a nuclear EMP attack. Given the growing reliance on interconnected and digitalized systems, the need for comprehensive EMP risk assessment has never […]

Written by Ranger Dorn, Exercise Program Director, EIS Council. We’ve all seen it—the rush of people emptying store shelves before or right after a disaster strikes. The media often portrays these scenes negatively, and in some ways, they are right. However, the problem isn’t with gathering emergency supplies; it’s with the timing, when people do […]

COVID-19's historic and continuing, tragic cost in lives, health and societal well-being represents the first near-Black Sky-class pandemic event in modern times. The unprecedented, global disruption highlighted the potential for a more severe pandemic that could become a global complex catastrophe, with large scale infrastructure disruption...