Everyone should read ‘One Second After’.
Everyone should read One Second After.
Terrifying book...
That IS a great book!
Some of it is plausible but Texans would fight as you don’t need electricity to fight Mexicans, Sam Houston didn’t.
The only immediate concern would be those on daily life sustaining medicines and drinking water. He was correct in assuming the “die off” on major urban areas would be over 90%.
“Everyone should read One Second After.’
After I read the book I talked to some physicists at work (real physicists who work on DARPA and defense projects not physics teachers). Their opinion was that the threat of EMP is greatly exaggerated and it would take a massive attack to completely blackout the US.