A resident expert on this subject has flamed me here and I am still convinced my position is correct.
A single EMP weapon could effectively kill a major city. Not the people directly, but the equipment that delivers food, provides power, the computers that run the traffic systems.
Our response? Glass parking lots in NORKland.
You think our power grids are safe from the effects of an EMP? As I understand it, it is the power grid as well as the non-shielded electronics that are used by critical infrastructure which are believed to be so vulnerable and dangerous.
On what do you base your belief that the Norks couldn’t deliver? We know that in December of 2012 they put a 200-pound package into orbit directly to our south. What makes you believe that it’s NOT an EMP, against what Peter Vincent Pry has said?
While a muslim might do a single city attack, I would expect anyone rational to only do it as a small part of a larger plan, we’d be so busy trying to respond to scores of attacks from scores of sources that our crippled forces would be so diluted that none of them would fear a devastating response.