A congressional advisory board has warned that Beijing has developed at least three weapons capable of attacking the US electrical grid and intends on using them in a first-strike scenario, calling China's "No First Use" policy "a bodyguard of lies and disinformation." According to a June 10 report by the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, China has developed three kinds of specialized nuclear weapons capable of delivering a massive electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would knock out US electrical systems as a prelude to a full-scale attack. "China's alleged nuclear 'No First Use' doctrine, like the USSR's during the Cold War, is almost certainly disinformation," Peter Pry, the task force's executive director, writes in the report. Pry argues that considering China's defensive capabilities and methods of detection, a "No First Use" policy "does not withstand the test of common sense." For example, China doesn't have the same kind of ballistic missile early-warning systems