Tiring scare tactics. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
The effects of EMP (the *three* types inherent to an extra-atmospheric nuclear detonation) have indeed been tested/ demonstrated. We have NOT of course ever demonstrated the ACTUAL 3-phase effects of a high-altitude nuclear detonation designed for EMP optimization (X-ray emphasis).
Even with the assumption that “One Second After” and similar novels overstate the risk and the damage, I find it reasonable to presume enough of the overall complex infrastructure and supply chain would be sufficiently cascade-disrupted such that the overall ‘just-in-time’/ 3-day supply chain *WOULD* be at least temporarily completely shut down in affected areas.
YOU make the call. I recommend you at worst have a plan to survive 3-hour, 3-day, 3-week, 3-month complete failures of modern infrastructures and supply chains. If longer than 3 months - survival will be feudal. (gallows humor)
The direct effects might pale in comparison to the indirect effects on social stability and civility, even if the direct effects seem ‘minor.’
IMHO.
..... Kim Jong’s rockets can only travel a few hundred miles at most .... so why are we panicking? Japan and S Korea are the ones that should actually be worried about this.
Fatso had a artillery display recently and it seems to me, a few Sensor Fused Stiches could end this all very quickly. Not a very good tactical decision putting all these together.
Operations Fishbowl and Castle Bravo. The Russians actually did their research on this before we did.