“Manchild,”
Listen, sunshine, the same feeble-mindedness, lack of science, and a total Internet nerd consensus drives the EMP discussions every bit as much as the Ozone Hole did and the Global Warming nonsense does.
You forgot the New Ice Age, the Alcar scare, the Nature vs. Nurture fallacy, the Population Explosion, and the other crap from the 70's that never panned out. I usually include the Ozone killing Earth theory, but you already did.
If you're really in the nuclear mix and know about the infra-structure, I'll take your position over his and all the doom-sayers that cite questionable Gov and NGO reports.