Because in 1965 or the 1961 Starfish test, no-one used microcircuits that are much more vulneralble than the tubes we used back then.
Microcircuits are used to control the water and sewage pumping stations today. Microcircuits are used to control the power grid.
Starfish was 600 miles away from Hawaii.
Telephones were controlled by rotary relays back then. Today, it's sensitive computers.
So sensitive in fact that people that work on them wear wrist straps to drain off static electicity. That little spark in winter when you scuff your feet across the carpet and touch the doorknob can ruin a computer.
/johnny
“I only wish someone would detonate one away from our mainland, say near Hawaii - and we could find out once and for all what the threat is.”
Good one, Bob.
I have a book around here, somewhere - “The Effects of Nuclear Weapons”, DOE, 1975, I think. Rather interesting reading, if I could remember where I put it.