[Celerity]

“I am so screwed.”

Is your house the center bullseye ?

Nuclear explosions causing EMPs is real. But an area needs to be hit with EMP after EMP in order for it to be effective. And a single detonation won’t do the trick even at optimal altitudes.

If one exploded way, way above the US yes it would do something - but it would need x amount more to do the whole job.

At the lower altitude it is more effective, but the radius isn’t as large. Again, more are needed.

If they nuked California... just a neighborhood in California it would spell the end of us. We would go nuts. We don’t need this grand plan to make America fall apart - sh!t the NYT and Washington Post are more devastating to us as a country than a single EMP.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Actually it might have the anti-effect — like Harvey did. First world problems are forgotten in the face of a sojourn of the third world.

[Lazamataz]

Nuclear explosions causing EMPs is real. But an area needs to be hit with EMP after EMP in order for it to be effective. And a single detonation won’t do the trick even at optimal altitudes.

I'd like to believe you, do you have experience or a solid source for your thoughts?