dr. graham, is happiness public-policy? >> that's a big question these days. when i start working on this about 10 years ago, people thought the few posts that were doing it were pretty loopy, or nuts. but actually it's become a new science, a way of measuring well being in a broader way than just income can measure well being and quality of life. and right now the british government and the united nations, the chinese government, the brazilian government, and i could name more, are very interested in implementing wielding metrics, or happiness metrics in their policy. in fact, the british government just completed its first round survey where it concluded happiness metrics in its national statistics speak what is a happiness metrics? >> is a measure of, we measure well being more generally. happiness is a colloquial term, but we take measures of how people, how satisfied people are with their lives in general, how they experience the day before. in other words, much shorter term daily experience kind of measure, and in how people evaluate their lives as a who

dr. william graham, who was the chairman of the congressional emp commission which i served, he was thentist and it was his first job to go investigate this incident in hawaii. and it turned out this was an example, a case of a electromagnetic pulse attack. jon: we're showing agraphic on the screen of lights going off all over the country but when you think about it the problem would be far worse than that. you are talking about hospitals with no power. people on ventilators, suddenly dying simply because there is no energy. so much of our infrastructure relies on computer controls. all of that would be out. gingrich and others are talking about the possibility of tens of millions of deaths from a nuclear strike that doesn't even land, you know, doesn't go off right above-ground. >> that's right. and he's correct in that. that's another finding from the emp commission. we, judged that given the nation's current state of unpreparedness to deal with an emp, that within a year of an emp attack, about 2/3 of the national population would probably die from starvation, disease, societal collap

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dr. graham, does the u.s. in any way measure happiness or well-being. a u.s.-based firm, the gallup organization is probably the biggest provider of well being a data. through the gallup world paul. will be assessing whether or not we should be including these measures and to our sense this and other statistical gathering data. spaghetti were to include a question and we're going to love of more happiness, how would you phrase it? >> i will include at least four questions on how did you experience yesterday i was. some question along those lines, the short-term fluctuations than the people how they are living. third, a question about purpose or meaning in your life. finally, if possible, i would also include another question which is how does your life compared to the best which is a sort of relative. so, when the brits measure happiness and the brazilians measure happiness with a find