AP Explains: How big a threat is an electromagnetic attack?

When much of Venezuela was plunged into darkness after a massive blackout this week, President Nicolás Maduro blamed the power outage on an "electromagnetic attack" carried out by the U.S. Blackouts are a regrettably frequent part of life in Venezuela, where the electric grid has fallen into serious disrepair. "In Venezuela, it's a lot easier for him to say we did something to him than he did it to himself," said Sharon Burke, senior adviser at New America, a nonpartisan think tank, and former assistant secretary of defense for operational energy at the Department of Defense.

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