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?
Here’s my two cents: fifty years ago computer technology & solid state circuitry were in their infancy. Infrastructure was mostly electromechanical & not chip-dependent like today. Nothing there to be fried.
An example: when Soviet pilot Lt. Belenko landed his state of the art MiG-25 in Japan in 1976, those who examined it found the avionics were vacuum tube based which was thought primitive at the time. Later they realized that the old fashioned radios in the MiG were not affected by EMP.
Make sense?
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?
Are you saying we’re basing all this on limited test data from 50 years ago? Surely we’ve done more high altitude nuclear tests between 1962 and 2012. (S)
“So what’s the difference between this Israeli threat and the USA tests?”
None. Every “survivalist” type thinks they have become a nuclear expert since they learned what EMP stands for.