WARNING : Small-Scale Attack on U.S. Power Grid Could Cause Nationwide Blackout

Attackers could bring down the entire power grid of the United States in just a few moves, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The report, citing an unreleased federal study, says a blackout could last more than a year. The United States is divided into three major power networks: Texas, the western half of the U.S. and the eastern half. Coordinated attacks in those three grids, pictured above, would knock out power to nine of the nation’s 55,000 electric substations. That would be enough to achieve a nationwide blackout. The substations take in electricity from power plants and send it out to hom es and businesses. The map below shows the flow of power out of those plants.

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