[Kozak]

Bad? Yes. 90% of Americans dead? Come on.

NOTHING works. No power, no communications, no cars, trucks, trains, planes, medical care, most farm equipment. Food in the midwest can't be harvested. If it was no way to move it to the rest of the country just one example. The US would be immediately catapulted into the 19th century, without the skills and tools to survive. In 1900 there were 76 million people in America, with 90% of them living on farms. The death toll would be horrendous.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Why would a tractor not work again?

[GOP_Party_Animal]

You and the author are making two key assumptions: 1. That the populace is totally unable to adapt. Yes, there would be massive problems, civil unrest and even starvation. But again 90%?! No. Not nearly. 2. The pulse hits every tractor sitting in a barn in America. Come on now. Even the Soviets couldn't hit every semi-urban area in the United States. What makes you think the Iranians can?

You've been sucked in by the article's hyperbole. I guess that's what it's supposed to do.

[TheRightGuy]

NOTHING works. No power, no communications, no cars, trucks, trains, planes, medical care, most farm equipment. Food in the midwest can't be harvested. If it was no way to move it to the rest of the country just one example. The US would be immediately catapulted into the 19th century, without the skills and tools to survive. In 1900 there were 76 million people in America, with 90% of them living on farms. The death toll would be horrendous.

might just be the much needed chlorine in our gene pool ... operation fresh start

[ColdWater]

NOTHING works. No power, no communications, no cars, trucks, trains, planes, medical care, most farm equipment.

Testing indicates otherwise. But I won't bother you with the facts ...

[bgill]

Food in the midwest can't be harvested.

Yeah, Americans will just sit in their recliners and complain. Thank goodness for illegals 'cause they'll pick lettuce from sun up to sun down and cart it into market for us.

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