[Euro-American Scum]

That's one long vanity!

First of all, it's not a vanity post. This was a compilation of independent sources -- which you have obviously chosen to arbitrarily discredit without so much as one supporting source of your own -- on the potential dangers of EMP damage to the domestic infrastructure.

BTW, your facts about EMP are not true. If they were, our space bursts in the 50's and 60's would have wiped out Hawaii, and instead they just screwed up AM radio for a few minutes.

So, all the sources cited in the compilation are wrong, while you are right? Have I got it? Guess you must have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[joanie-f]

I was going to reply to the same post you did, but couldn't have done it any better.

Thanks. :)

[Quix]

Well said, imho.

[_Jim]

oldleft:

BTW, your facts about EMP are not true. If they were, our space bursts in the 50's and 60's would have wiped out Hawaii, and instead they just screwed up AM radio for a few minutes.

Euro-American Scum

So, all the sources cited in the compilation are wrong, while you are right? Have I got it? Guess you must have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Re: the effects seen in Hawaii:

"It is worthwhile reviewing the most famous of the EMP effects from U.S. atmospheric testing, namely the simultaneous failure of 30 strings of streetlights in Oahu during the Starfish event.

...

He notes that the observed damage is consistent with the magnitude and orientation of the EMP fields impinging on the streetlight strings that suffered damage.

More importantly, he notes that the 30 strings of failed streetlights represented only about 1% of the streetlights that existed on Oahu at the time. Thus, the effects were not ubiquitous."