Is "Prepping" Practical Or Paranoia?

[4th law of robotics]

136. The economic damage of 9/11 was tremendous

and that would be a boon compared to an EMP hitting the north east.

Also on the retaliation bit: easy enough to do if they claim credit. If it's just a missile fired from a rented cargo ship though?

Or one of 10,000 other possible scenarios.

Missiles don't come with barcodes. At least not ones that are useful afterwards. We would definitely retaliate against someone.

But of course that could be part of the point behind such an attack.

Also the post-event terror that would inspire would be tremendous. Assuming we could get things back under control how could the government reassure people that this won't happen again? Hijacking a plane is sorta a one time event. After that passengers wouldn't comply.

But with a missile? Good luck, unless we can actually vaporize them at will as some believe. Heh.