Structural Vulnerability of the North American Power Grid · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0401084/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTStructural Vulnerability of the North American Power Grid — mentioned by xyzzy123https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6006519urn:hackerpapers:mention:cond-mat_0401084:6006519Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:01:24 GMT<p>You don&#x27;t need to take out hundreds of plants. Typically you might only need to cause a few targeted failures at the right time, and if you do this in a nasty way you can cause a cascading failure, taking out key transmission lines or other nodes in the network. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_failure * Structural Vulnerability of the North American Power Grid - http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0401084v1.pdf * Risk-aware Attacks and Catastrophic Cascading Failures in U.S. Power Grid - http://www.ele.uri.edu/nest/paper/Globecom_2011.pdf It&#x27;s a very &quot;Dr Evil&quot; topic, I know...</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0401084/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.dis-nn