[Radioactive]

Underground fiber otpics......this would prevent any EMP attack from being sucessful.

Underground wiring is essential especially when dealing with natural disasters such as tornados and hurricanes.

Underground wiring and underground fiber optics would get rid of a lot of ugly eyesore telephone poles and make outages from weather a thing of the past.

[RaceBannon]

I am not sure that is the issue.

The issue is transistors and chips that would be internally melted or shorted.

That means whatever generates the signal to be transmitted over the fiber optic line would be non functional because the chip that processes the math would not work: hence: not even the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!

In fact, your car would die, too, there are many chips in your car's computer, too.

No radios. No television unless it is tube technology, but the transmitters would be fried locally.

Cable TV might work from a long distance, but not from the local stations.

Your satellite receiver would be fried because the box has chips in it.

Time to go analog!

That or build a lead shield around your house!

[Cobra64]

Underground fiber otpics......this would prevent any EMP attack from being sucessful.

Oh really? /sarcasm

[Paridel]

Underground fiber optics wouldn't really help us as much as you would think.

In the aftermath of a EMP what would prevent you from connecting to free republic would certainly be the lack of power from damage to our power grid. I'm not really afraid of that occurring, but fiber connecting the different communications systems would be useless without power and, more to the point, working communication systems to connect to the fiber.

As far as military communication that would probably be done with wide-band radio transmission.

-paridel