You’ll recall that in the 2001 movie, an electromagnetic pulse is used by the merry gang of criminals in Las Vegas in order to shut down the city’s power sources and rob a casino.

Well, guess what the House Armed Services Committee held a hearing on Thursday? The threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack. (Washington always was a step behind Hollywood. …)

Of course, some called out the threat as just that: fiction. “The difference between this and Stephen King is that, in Borders, Stephen King is in the fiction section,” Rep. John McHugh said.