Posted on 09/16/2015 10:50:21 AM PDT by lulu16
The thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel One Second After
Months before publication, William R. Forstchen’s One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit.
The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging.
Then comes word that most of the young men and women of the community are to be drafted into an “Army of National Recovery” and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away.
(Excerpt) Read more at goodreads.com ...
That is a nice idea: Freepers Airbnb. Please tell us your review of the book after you have read it and who you have passed it onto.
Dog food is often recommended for life raft/abandon ship stores for transoceanic sailors. It will keep people alive without the temptation of eating it all at once.
You sent me a 5:09 U-Tube video ( 3X faster ) of all " A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto"
That's fine film of nuclear detonations, but it doesn't answer the germain question of the electronic effects of High Altitude nuclear detonation .
None of those in the U-Tube film deal with "High Altitude" detonations, much less EMP effects , which is the essense of the question asked.
Thanks anyway !
OOOoohhh?! I like it!
10% of the rental goes to end freepathon$?!
Interesting. That is why I don’t feed my dogs dog food. I feel sorry for them, they will get taste fatigue. That is probably while it is store in lifeboats.
My dogs eat our leftovers based on rice. However, it broke my heart when the owner of the dog did not even have a bag of dog food for his dog when the EMP hit. So my dogs have bags in storage, just in case.
I was going to mention donating to FR on this thread, because think of a world without communicating with our fellow Freepers. Thanks for reminding me.
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Not as chintzy as me. I spent the past hour trying to get my library card updated or back in the system and come to find out they want $10 because I’m out of district. Excuse me, I’m like 30 feet from the district line and 5 minutes from the library I’ve been using since I was a kid. But, nooooo. After all that, I’ll be if I pay them $10/yr. Now I’m going to have to drive through 4 towns to get to my “district” library (district sounds commie). Fine, they ordered the book for me and maybe no one will read it, so there, neener, neener.
I got “my district” to order it and it’ll be in sooner than the out of district one, so all the better.
What happened to him other than going mental over losing WILSON!!!!!!
11. Stock up on books (including survival guides)
Amazon.com and BDalton have lots of ebooks (kindle and nook) for free. However, print out skills and how tos so you'll have them when your computer doesn't work.
Getting about time to watch a little of “Brazil”, Terry Gilliam’s tale of dealing with “The Man”?
Nah, I have to deal with The Man enough without thinking any more about it.
My cats will do just fine. So far today, they brought one snake to my computer desk. Yesterday, it was two snakes and a bird. The day before it was a squirrel. They’ve been warned about the bbq grill if I ever find one of their presents in the bed. Well, it was really one snake yesterday because when the cat was one step from coming inside I saw it, turned around for a second to grab something to squish it and when I turned back Miss Innocent was like, “snake, what snake, I don’t know nothin’ about no snake.” I spent 30 minutes yelling and looking under everything for it. Never did find it. Trash cans, hubby’s boots, and cast iron skillets make great snake squishers but you need to keep the carpet cleaner ready at a moment’s notice.
Gee, can’t imagine why a huge buzzard flew through the patio a while ago and camped himself out looking all hungry. A BB on his behind sent him on his merry way. Ha, city folk think country life is boring.
They aren’t high altitude nor are they over a city, nor are they involving modern electronics.
My understanding is that they didn’t have any effect because the electronics were not as sensitive as they are today.
The electronics were not as sensitive then but there were effects noted. Those effects are what led to the discovery of EMP.
Our military has a EMP generator that can be loaded onto aircraft to use as a weapon. If EMP isn’t real why would they build a weapon?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/us-air-force-confirms-boeings-electromagnetic-pulse-weapon/
The Soviets were aware of EMP and had studied it as a potential weapon before the US did. The US knew about EMP and considered it an undesirable side effect of a nuclear blast.
The first time they started looking at it in earnest was Operation Fishbowl. That’s worth looking up.
In the 60s we actually started working with nukes in order to do something other than burn or blow up a lot of stuff. The Cobalt bomb is an example - can we use a nuke to kill all sorts of people, but leave the buildings standing?
Turns out you can to a large extent.
A nuke that was tailored to produce a large EMP effect would not be a massive, megaton weapon. It would be something designed to shake as many electrons out of the upper atmosphere as possible. Those electrons get lensed back down to the surface of the earth where they are picked up by long transmission lines in three distinct phases.
The second one is the one that does most of the damage - destroying large transformers and the like. Solid state devices - semiconductor devices - would not cotton to a massive EMP.
The thing is, we may end up being surprised. Most big concrete structures have rebar in them and it is networked together like a faraday cage. No telling what electronics will survive in structures like that.
The electrical generation and distribution, however, is out in the open and it will be toast.
Add to this that we don’t manufacture the transformers we’d need to recover from something like that any more here in the US.
I read “One Second After”. It was great. Thanks for the heads-up!
And don’t forget:
16. Guns. Low-tech enough to survive EMP, and good for blowing away attacking zombies.
The question is, how fast did you read it? I remember never putting it down.
What we have learned from The Walking Dead is it must be a head shot, so adjust accordingly.
I can’t remember. I read it in Nov ‘14. I’ve been keeping a record of every book I’ve read, where I got it, how much it cost and how I rated it since 2008. I gave it a very high rating, so I’m sure that I blasted through it. :)
I love the genre.
Detonation over Karagandy, Kazakhstan
59 kilometres (37 mi) high
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