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"...What do you mean no agriculture? An EMP attack will not kill one cow...."

Are just trolling at this point?

Unless you live next to that cow, you are not going to eat that cow. There is no way to bring it to market. All modern vehicles possess non-hardened electronics for the timing of the engine. Those vehicles won't work post-EMP.

All modern vehicles possess non-hardened electronics for the timing of the engine. Those vehicles won’t work post-EMP.

That is speculation, not backed up by testing. The best information we have is that some vehicles will be affected. Some will not. Testing has been limited and incomplete.

The effect that you mention could happen, but it has a good chance of not being correct.

I do not think a single EMP strike can blanket the entire country. The U.S. is simply too large, and optimum heights for EMP strikes limit the distance they are effective over.

Make the strike too high, and it becomes difficult to get the EMP effect. You probably need 3-5 EMP detonations to blanket the U.S.

If you only get a partial effect in the U.S., say leaving the Texas grid intact, you do not get the 90% die off. You get some version of Puerto Rico writ large, where the unaffected U.S. has sufficient resources to aid the rest in surviving and rebuilding.

It doesn’t take much to get diesel to farmers in the midwest, and to get a few trains running again to distribute food.

It would be bad, but not the 90% catastrophe.

Any vehicle with metal bodywork is a basic Faraday cage, and would survive an EMP with minimal damage to the engine control systems. Older vehicles that don’t have electronic ignition/fuel control systems would be completely unaffected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage