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!
HULKS SMASH!
Things are never over enveloping though when it comes to EMP planning. A lot of devices will still survive, there will be gaps in field strengths ect.
A device strong enough to fry every device would have to be placed high enough to make use of the magnetosphere and the van allen belts on the planet’s dark side(the solar radiation on the light side thins out the belts on the light side making them thicker on the dark side which is why am radio transmission is enhanced at night.) A small kiloton weapon won’t do it, and it would have to be placed just right. Think hundreds of kilotons. The again you have to ensure that the weapon would just do Iran and not 1/2 of Asia, eastern Europe, southern parts of Russia, and all the way east to India.
The best emps for targeting iran will have to be multiple and localized targeting critical infrastructures with the expectation that these won’t be able to fry everything. They will be high speed inductor/capacitor saturation type devices which when they oversaturate and “break or snap”, they give off a very strong burst of low frequecy high amplitude magnetic energy over a localized defined area which declines squarely with distance.
I can just visualize the "nation building" contractors salivating with anticipation of juicy contracts.........now, that's what I call REAL shovel ready job creation :-)
I don't understand.
So you fry my circuit board ... why can't I take one from my lead-lined bunker deep underground and replace it?
Why isn't there a power supply (nuke?) in that same bunker providing the electricity?
Do EMP gremlins travel to and fro upon the earth after being released to wreak havoc on any electron ... ala PacMan ?