[steplock]

You don't need to take out the entire city!

set one off atop the empire State bldg? wall street area?

One atop the tallest bldg in any city would be enough to cause massive damage and sheer terror.

Mission accomplished on the cheap!

[Servant of the 9]

You don't need to take out the entire city!
set one off atop the empire State bldg? wall street area?

Set one off atop the Empire State Building and the pulse woldn't reach the ground.

The Back offices of the brokerages are scattered all over New York, New Jersey and Conneticut.
The exchenges have mirrored systems located in salt mines in the midwest, and the brokerages have backup datastores there.

An EMP attack that took out all of Manhatten would take the exchanges down for maybe 15 minutes with no loss of data.

The same is true of the big banks and the Federal Reserve.

So9