[Eleutheria5]

Now just a cotton pickin' minute here. Didn't gamma rays create the Incredible Hulk? Do we really want a squadron of green, super-strong mujahidoon leaping towards Israel, really PO'd because they can't watch El Jazeera anymore on account of an EMP bomb? I remember how ticked off I was that we didn't have hardly any TV reception for weeks after 9/11. Think how mad the Iranians will be, and now they'll be big, green and superhumanly strong.

[fso301]

These are fanciful wishes that require the Iranians to not be aware of such attack possibility and to have not taken taken measures to provide EMP protection to their nuclear projects.

[sten]

all the way back...

to february

[American Constitutionalist]

Perhaps that explains NBCs new show called : Revolution when all electrical power is useless.

[MagnoliaB]

When did they leave the stone age?

[Terry L Smith]

It would neutralize every cellphone, every computer, and oh, yes, Gameboy, consumer radios, automobile electronics, mama’s washing machines, and, of course, every microwave oven that exists over there. It could blank every videotape in existence.

So, there would be no communications, in or out!
There would be no power grid, and no remedy, other than to replace and start all over.

Once things have EMP’d, they don’t ‘switch back’ after a while, it’s permanent!

[WashStateGirl]

Of course something that would produce an EMP pulse of the needed magnitude is called a “hydrogen bomb”

[RightOnline]

Forward!..........“back to the Stone Age”

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

I’ll give three guesses as to who the world would expect to provide relief/rebuiding money.

[Bratch]

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Didn't gamma rays create the Incredible Hulk? Do we really want a squadron of green, super-strong mujahidoon

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Comic Book Resources

COMIC URBAN LEGEND: The Hulk is green because of poor color separations.

STATUS: True

One of the interesting aspects of the direct market is that the guaranteed sales of the individual comics enables publishers to spend more money on the individual comic books. Before the direct market existed, comic book companies were forced to publish, when sales were GOOD, twice as many copies of any given issue than they actually sold. Therefore, if it cost two cents to make a comic, it effectively cost FOUR cents, as the company had to publish four copies to sell two (with the unsold copies simply being trashed). With this in mind, companies had to be as stingy as they possibly could. We have addressed previous manisfestations of this before, where we saw comic companies keep the same numbering on a comic although the content changed dramatically, simply to avoid having to register a new #1 and pay an additional registration fee with the post office.

A symptom of this cost-cutting is evident in the coloring process. The four-color separations and newsprint-esque pages in Marvel comics did not always bode well for certain color schemes.

One such color was grey.

It was not that comics could not use the color grey – they could. It simply wouldn’t come out the same way each time.

Therefore, when 1962′s Incredible Hulk #1 rolled around, Marvel had a problem. Dr. Bruce Banner is transformed into a monster called the Hulk by Gamma Radiation. The giant behemoth known as the Hulk is grey…but as you can see, the grey-coloring is far from consistent within the issue. Just compare this interior pages with the cover (thanks to H, from the Comic Treadmill, for the scans of the interior pages).

Thus, in a decisive move, as of the second issue of the Hulk, the Hulk was now a color Marvel COULD color consistently – green.

The rest, as they say, is history.

[vanilla swirl]

rule of thumb; if we are talking about it it won’t happen.

My guess is Israel will target specific areas with conventional weapons. That would probably prevent the most political backlash. EMP would put them back to the stone age killing many innocent civilians. Direct nuke strike....well, you know. Either one of these would bring huge opposition from the “world community”.
Whatever they do, it will be in the next few days and they will be alone.

[762X51]

But if you’re already in the stone age would it throw you back into the Cretaceous period? Is the back throwing a fixed amount of time? Would this be localized time travel? So may questions, so few EMP guns.

[Bobloblaw2012]

Someone help me with this. From 1958-62 the USA did numerous high altitude nuclear tests (Trinity and Beyond) and while some shots over Johnston island did impact electrical circuits from Hawaii to New Zealand, there was no permanent damage. So what’s the difference between this Israeli threat and the USA tests?

[Hardraade]

Forget about EMP. Just go for the population. You get EMP on top, like a bonus.

Sheesh. Does nobody know what a nuke *is* anymore?

[Da Coyote]

“...and sending the Islamic Republic “back to the Stone Age,” ...”

But - as an Islamic Republic...it is by definition always in a stone age.

[montag813]

Israel would never do this. Millions would die in Tehran alone and Israel would be an international pariah. Moreover, it is likely that Iran has hardened facilities that could withstand such an attack. Our military has extensive infrastructures so equipped, as does Israel.

[montag813]

Didn't gamma rays create the Incredible Hulk? Do we really want a squadron of green, super-strong mujahidoon leaping towards Israel,

This is an even more dire threat now that a Muslim character has been added to the Green Lantern.

[stuartcr]

What would happen to the hospitals and the people that need medical aid, or the food supplies?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

As a backup plan, the Israelis should also make neutron bombs, that kill every living thing but generally do not harm buildings or other objects.

[dfwgator]

That should read, “Forward to the Stone Age.”