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Cliff Sims

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

in Ukraine with the Russians, because the Russians have pretty robust cyber capabilities.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

And we've seen them have some successes there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

We've seen them not be as successful and maybe not done some things that we thought they might have done.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

But in the United States, one of the areas where there is a lot of focus, but I think needs to be more focus in, what are we doing to harden our infrastructure?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

What are we doing to our power grid to ensure that we're not vulnerable in the event of

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

war or an attack of some point from a cyber perspective, that we're not extremely vulnerable, because right now I think we're more vulnerable there than we would like to admit.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

Well, in some ways, I'm not going to talk about it, and in other ways, I don't know.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

Okay.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

And these are the kind of eventualities that are...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

People are planning for these things, but the thing that's difficult is how civilization as a whole is so dependent on electricity at this point, how quickly it would affect our food supply, people's ability to get access to food and clean water, and all of these different kind of necessities of life, and how quickly we could devolve into chaos here domestically

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

irregardless of kind of what's going on externally, who's attacking us.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

So I think you're spot on.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

This is an area of extreme concern and vulnerability that we need to do a lot more on.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

What about the water supply?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

Same stuff?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

Yeah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

Anything that's an industrial control system at this point,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

There are people, really smart people, who are devoting their lives to this problem, but it needs a lot more focus on the government side.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

So there's a funny story when my wife and I left D.C., we were moving back to Alabama and we were buying a house.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#136 Cliff Sims - White House Myths, Doomsday Bunkers and Holding the Nuclear Football

And the mortgage guy calls and he says, hey, we're doing our due diligence on the mortgage here and one of the things we had to search was is there any pending litigation going on and