BOOK REVIEW: The Disaster Diaries (by Sam Sheridan)

The study of emergency preparedness can be pretty bleak. After all, you’ve got your natural disasters, your manmade disasters, your civil unrest, your economic instability…. Really, it’s enough to make a person throw in the towel and ignore the whole shebang. Unless. Unless you’re a mixed martial arts fighter whose name is Sam Sheridan. Sam is not one to roll …

BOOK REVIEW: One Second After (by William Forstchen)

Electromagnetic Pulse. Sounds like the stuff of James Bond novels, doesn’t it? A mysterious phenomenon that does…what, exactly? Well, there is the scientific aspect. To wit, an electromagnetic pulse—or EMP—of the type employed in this novel is accomplished by detonating nuclear warheads above the atmosphere, where the blast does some fancy dancing with Earth’s magnetic field and essentially mimics a …