“The truth is....we don’t know.”
You may not but the military does. Many classified atmospheric and exoatmospheric tests were conducted to determine the use of EMP as a weapon, both from using EMP over another nation to disrupt its military and commerce and during the midcourse phase of a ballistic missile to destroy incoming missiles. I earned my PhD in physics during those tests (participated in discovering the third Van Allen radiation belt and provided additional modeling of the time dilation theory).
If there was a use for EMP it would be a weapon today. There isn’t.
The Van Allen potentiation caused a lot of worry at NASA as they were planning on launching astronauts through them for the Apollo Moon missions.
I remember reading that Cape Canaveral would have been better located away from the equator.
“You may not but the military does. “
I know what the military knows. They protect a lot of things and they do it n a specific way. It is effective and expensive generally.
What we don’t know, is how a lot of commercial systems, vehicles, and devices will fare in an emp. In a way these systems are more complicated to harden than military systems, because you cannot universally apply military methods to civil systems.
Now please stop pretending you know what you are talking about. If you would simply look at the references (from giants in the field) that I provided you you might moderate your position on EMP.
You are particularly stubborn about what you don’t know.
I can teach you and change your mind if you would stop bloviating BS on this issue. You are nearly completely wrong.
You obviously have some technical knowledge, you just are wrong on your understanding of this issue and won’t stop to learn why.
EMP is neither fully understood nor is it known how it will impact civil infrastructure. I do not subscribe to the hysteria of the stone age but the impact could be very significant.
Folks on this forum have legitimate concern. I do my best to help. You are not helpful at all