[justa-hairyape]

EMP would make sense for a single missile launch. Effective distribution area determined by height and lateral distance apparently. Image from www.barking-moonbat.com.

Looks like if you reached the correct height, would only take one on the west coast and one on the east coast. Or perhaps one off the west coast and one off the 3rd coast (southern). Imagine Obama coming back from his Far East Crusade to an America crippled by an EMP.

[justa-hairyape]

Oops. Do not know what happened to that image. Here is an image link to an EMP article with three videos. Click image.

[mmercier]

I believe a single 50kt city buster detonation about a mile high over Kansas would effectively shut down every non hardened electric device from coast to coast. If this was such an attempt, their missile guidance sucked, and the dink with the camera missed the more dramatic sinking of the launch platform.

I know for a fact that the US Navy, as a matter of policy, does not let too many missile launch capable boats hover off the west coast.

I read a book “War Day” years back, I recommend it to those who think this was an attack.

I bet the navy is going to come up one tomahawk short at its next audit.

Or the Pentagon is cutting off a new purchase orders to Hughes and GD and GE.