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See "Warday" by Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka. It's fiction, but had reasonably realistic consequences of nuclear and EMP attack on the US.
EMP is a threat but this is article tin-foiled.
Can't things be shielded?
Guess we'll go into 'Y2K' mode. Yes, I was one of the nuts who prepared. Actually, it was kind of fun and I learned a whole lot about how dependent we are on modern technology. I think I'm a survivalist at heart. My husband, wisely, humored me through the whole thing. And, to his credit, he didn't say "I told you so"! LOL!
EMP: Is that the same thing that fries the electronics in cars?
That was the job of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the U.S. from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack.
But, but isn't that what W got ridiculed for doing, thinking of ways to damage the country?
FYI
It could also be the biggest damn dud since the Y2K crisis.
EMP effects are difficult to model because they are extremely sensitive to environmental factors that are not fully understood. In EMP testing, it is very difficult to get consistently reproducible results. It's not uncommon to have Computer A get turned into a 20-pound paperweight, Computer B to hiccup slightly and continue running with subtle problems (more blue screens of death, etc.), and Computer C be unaffected--and they're all sitting on the same test bench at the same time...
Isn't is true, that if electric current is not running through a particular device (i.e. unplugged) then it is shielded from EMP?
That was one of the things they are working on at Los Alamos. If you recall those threads, not too long ago.
Posits an attack by unknown agency which stops all electrical devices (including say...flashlights) from working- starvation, plague, riots, rape, murder, lice, hand farming...oh and gunpowder doesn't work either.
kind of a little goofy- but to his credit he doesn't try to explain the "how" of it- these are the effects he needs for his story, soooo "the boojums did it."
Does "_" think it is possible?
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Now that's funny.
Pity the poor people with pacemakers...