[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

EMP Ping!

[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.

[rmmcdaniell]

Our country is unprepared to deal with a nuclear explosion at a high altitude. The danger would be more than merely life or limb. A nuclear explosion over Chicago, for example, could plunge a large portion of our country into darkness, with electricity lost for days, even months, perhaps in some places years. All computerized activity in the region would cease. The culprit: High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse.

This concern is stupid beyond imagination. Terrorists are a million times more likely to detonate a nuke on the ground. Why would they bother with a fancy airburst (which would require ballistic missles or jets to transport it) when a ground explosion would be so much easier and more destructive? Any sitution were an airburst would be likely (exp: full-blown nuclear war with China) the status of our electrical instruments would be the least of our concern.