Doood....that doesn’t make any sense. The article is about the electro-magnetic pulse of a nuclear detonation at altitude.
I understand that. Do you understand how quickly the effect of an EMP falls away with distance? And the amount of distance we are talking about?
In my soon to be released novel (titled ‘EMP’) it is a massive solar event that causes the effect. It is mentioned in the book that the Amish communities are doing pretty well a couple of months in, because they didn’t have their day to day lives disrupted.
Like the 2,000 or so nukes set off across the world, several dozen of which were burst at extreme altitude? Guess what, we are still here. The "1-nuke-at-altitude-and-we-go-back-to-the-stone-age" is BS. Yes, I read One Second After. Good book, but it is still FICTION.
When I was with DOE/NNSA, I was able to visit an SS-18 site being dismantled in the mid-1990s. When we talked to the Russians about their big 25MT warhead on some of them, they said that it was for the LCCs in the Minuteman/MX missile fields, which makes sense. (Anyways, never trust the russians. IIRC those 25MT warheads were dismantled at their Pantex Plant equivalent in Russia).