THE BIGGEST, got it?
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I totally get it and you’re absolutely right. Since you’re in the field, let me ask you for your opinion on something. Forstchen (who wrote “One Second After”) was on the radio last night, and he said that although an EMP from a single aerial nuke would take out the power grid of a large portion of the U.S., it would actually take two or three aerial nukes (and their resultant EMPs) to completely blanket the U.S. and wipe out our grid completely. Is that your understanding as well? I’d like to hear details if you have any.
yes, if you think about the blast radius of the bomb itself, the EMP radius is similar and the strength of it dissipates by the square of the distance too. 250 miles away you would pick up the EMP on all your radios and airwaves, but it would not fry electronics they way it will close by.
So it would take several to take down the entire USA- You have to consider that the grid taken out in one area puts a strain on other areas, even if the EMP itself does not.
And our grid is VERY BAD.
So it would take several and they would have to be strategically placed, but its not like it would require pinpoint accuracy- just getting in the general area of a major grid is good enough.
3 - one each in NYC, Washington DC and LA would be enough, I think. 6 if you include Seattle and Dallas, and Boulder, and I think it is not recoverable without decades of living like it is 1900 again.