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+====Cyber-attack’s coming now~-~--actors are probing US electricity weaknesses==== |
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+Reed 10/11 John, Reports on the frontiers of cyber war and the latest in military technology for Killer Apps at Foreign Policy, "U.S. energy companies victims of potentially destructive cyber intrusions", 2012, killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/11/us_energy_companies_victims_of_potentially_destructive_cyber_attacks |
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+Foreign actors are probing the networks of key American companies in an attempt to gain |
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+AND |
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+power plants infected by Stuxnet very far away from Iran," Kaspersky said. |
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+====Key military operations depend on the grid~-~--SMRs are essential this Turns Case==== |
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+Robitaille 12 George E, Department of Army Civilian, March 21, "Small Modular Reactors: The Army’s Secure Source of Energy?", www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA561802 |
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+In recent years, the U.S Department of Defense (DoD) has |
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+AND |
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+associated with building coal or natural gas fired power plants on the environment. |
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+====Only smr’s solve the grid – renewables fail==== |
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+Charles Barton 11, founder of the Nuclear Green Revolution blog, MA in philosophy, “Future storm damage to the grid may carry unacceptable costs”, April 30, http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html |
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+Amory Lovins has long argued that the traditional grid is vulnerable to this sort of |
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+AND |
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+use of renewable electrical generation approaches may worsen rather than improved grid reliability. |
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+====Effective military operations solve nuclear conflict==== |
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+Kagan and O’Hanlon 7 |
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+Frederick Kagan and Michael O’Hanlon, Fred’s a resident scholar at AEI, Michael is a senior fellow in foreign policy at Brookings, “The Case for Larger Ground Forces”, April 24, 2007, http://www.aei.org/files/2007/04/24/20070424_Kagan20070424.pdf |
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+We live at a time when wars not only rage in nearly every region but |
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+AND |
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+intensive missions such as the ones now under way in Iraq and Afghanistan. |