We've set off enough nukes during the 50's and 60's to know that this EMP pulse attack stuff is nonsense.
Worrying about a nuke being detonated a couple miles above a major city is ALL you need to worry about, because if you are anywhere within 25 miles, you are dead. You'll be dead soon within 50 miles, and if you're outside of fifty miles, get as far away as you can as fast as you can.
Considering that if we are on the receiving end of a nuclear attack, many cities will be hit, and no matter where you are, the fallout is likely going to kill you soon anyways.
So unless you have a real good bomb shelter way out in the boonies 100 miles from anything with enough food and water, a good air filtration system, generator and fuel to run it for a year or more, You're gonna die.
“We’ve set off enough nukes during the 50’s and 60’s to know that this EMP pulse attack stuff is nonsense.”
Look up Starfish Prime or ARGUS.
Ummm, almost nothing had computer chips in them the 50’s and 60’s ... If a nuke was tested in Nevada above ground in the late 50’s - computer chips didn’t even exist...
In the 50’s there were not all the electronics or the same forms of electronics ... it was the early days of transistors then.
You are correct about the kill zone. The point of the high atmosphere detonations is exactly to not cause destructions of properties; rather it is to disable all of our current facilities in the homes, businesses in the basics of current life. I am one of those that live in the great fly over country. Thus it is worth preparing as best as possible. Rather than fiddle while Rome burns.
God bless America.
Your post shows you know nothing about EMP.
The kind of EMP that is dangerous over a wide area is produced when the detonation is above the atmosphere. At the altitude you detonate it...there is NOTHING to kill you. It's detonated hundreds of miles above the sfc. Reason: Line of Sight. The higher and stronger the blast...the more distance the EMP travels across the sfc of the earth.
The blasts in the 50's and 60's that you are talking about were sfc detonations. WITHIN the atmosphere. Its the Compton Effect that creates the EMP when gamma radiation hits the upper atmosphere. This didn't happen in those nukes "we set off"...except the ones we set off above the atmosphere.
Educate yourself on EMP. You can still disagree with respect to the damage it will cause...but your post shows you don't understand what is being said.
Of course if there is a sfc blast...we've got bigger problems than EMP. The concern HERE (in this article) is a 1+MT blast 200+ miles above the sfc. That's a completely different animal. If its running (and it has a chip it in...etc)...it will get fried.