Except when they are in my electronic gear.
You are right, but I was thinking that when a missile would be launched, we could shut down any machines that use electronics and then the EMP would not have any effect.
Burrying the fibre optic cables and power lines would prevent a lot of problems like we had when the power went out a year ago.
Shutting it down first would be innefective, it is the presence of the chip itself, the micro-circutry that gets shorted out from the radio waves, they generate protons that fry it
We need to look this up for a better descr!