Read William Forstchen’s “One Second After”. It’s a work of fiction but a very engaging page-turner. You’ll learn in great detail what happens after an EMP. If I recall correctly, Newt Gingrich wrote the forward to the book.
Yes, that was a good read. Scary as hell.
I read that one a few years ago. A sobering tale.
It’s very fictional and was written to generate support for grants for certain individuals/groups to do more research.
Copied from a post I made on this subject not to long ago:
There are two and possibly 5 countries with the wherewithal do successfully pull off a hemp detonation IF it was not intercepted in route—one or a few missiles head this way you can bet that there will be enough countermeasures to stop or at least limit the damage...the norks are far from able to pull this off anytime soon
Also, emp effects are based on long circuits pushing up enough energy to fry stuff....power grid is vulnerable but most vehicles, even modern, would be largely unnaffected, as would generators and other electronics that are not plugged in
I know from personal experience parts of out power grid are protected with basically giant fuses and much of it would be brought back online fairly quickly
If you want something credible to worry about then worry about the c&c systems of the power grid, banking ssytem, and toher critical infrastructure being hacked...there is stuff there that should keep you from sleeping well
I understand that there is much controversy about the actual ramifications of an EMP in the amount of damage that would occur.
But the scary thing about that book, isn’t the EMP attack, but the very realistic scenarios he paints of the breakdown of society should the power grid ever be taken out, no matter how it’s done.