It seems more likely that they would be able to incinerate a city that pull off a high altitude detonation that would have this effect. More likely than that is that they’d get off a missile and that it’d miss its target or otherwise malfunction or be intercepted.
That said, I’m glad my remote bugout location is finished - unlimited water, well stocked on food and lots of hunting/fishing nearby, offgrid renewable power. Assuming that I can safely get to it, I’ll be set for a long time.
While I have no doubts the Mullahs of Iran would be happy to find paradise, I do doubt that little fat prick in NK would not.
Sheesh. Lib scaremongering. China knows that if NK nukes the USA, then the USA will obliterate NK, which means fallout and refugees for them. Rocketboy can rattle his sabre all he wants, but China will prevent this from happening.
One of the principle reason so many find an EMP attack scary is because we in the US no longer make the turbines needed to generate power - lose one and the wait to replace in is measured in years due to the backlog in Norway (I think).
Wouldn’t be too bad. The SMALL family and I are sitting on just under 30 acres on the south fork of the New River in NC. We’d get by just fine. I would miss regular dental visits though. There is little doubt, we could HOLD that hill.
This Nation is a spoiled lot. The complete ignorance of MOST of the population would really be an eye opener !!
Our population would “thin” quite rapidly and the word- medieval- would perhaps be used more.
Doubt it happens though . . . . .
DJT is a different ballgame.
Urchin may not have thought this one through. I just hope we have.
Ping.
Are you scared by that article? me neither. Why was it written? to scare us. To create a layer of anxiety.
If that were tried, the fat dictator would become dog food.
The problem is the Norks have no clue where their missiles will land. :-)
No one else, anywhere, has done the math.
So, if you want a math-based perspective (gasp!) instead of wild-eyed thoughts from “The Internet” then let Free Republic be the first to show it off:
A 1 megaton blast at 200,000 km altitude (sweet spot in Ionosphere for EMP effects) would generate ~~ 4.2 *10^15 joules at that point which might translate to ~~ 6.5 Megawatts/200,000 meters on the surface directly beneath the blast, distributed horizon to horizon (~~ 1,200 miles of Earth surface in every direction) so electronics on the surface directly beneath the blast would see an electrical surge from the Hall effect of a magnetic wave passing through conductive surfaces/wire of about 324 watts/square meter.
Obviously the longer length of your wire (circuitry) that is exposed to the EMP the greater your total wattage from the surge will be in your circuit.
Telephone wires could easily spark. Your headlights/taillights might glow bright for a moment, perhaps even pop. Parallel circuits will be less taxed than series circuits.
...but the surge directly below the blast will be orders of magnitude greater than the final EMP that reaches the blast’s 1,200 mile horizon radius (1,931 Km).
Distance matters.
6.5 Megawatts divided by 1,931,000 meters means that the EMP on the end horizon of the blast is only ~~ 3.37 watts per square meter. Pretty much every circuit made can handle that “surge”.
324 watts/sq meter directly under a high-altitude Space EMP blast, trailing down to 3.37 watts/sq meter 1,200 miles horizontally away from the EMP blast.
A nuke in a parked truck in the middle of Manhattan could do some serious damage too.
How a NK attack could turn NORTH KOREA into a nuclear, radioactive wasteland that glows at night.
They try a nuclear attack on the US.