I learned about EMP in the 80s while on active duty. A 1MT device detonated 400 miles over Kansas would take out every computer chip from Maine to Baja California, not to mention the power grid and most of the stuff connected to it. Tens of millions would be dead of starvation within a couple months. This is the ultimate doomsday scenario for our miserable “what about me” culture. Not very many positives in the scenario. And with nuclear proliferation ... and many who feel they “have nothing to lose”... it will happen eventually.
The Congress was briefed EMP in the 80s, and it was after the briefing that they passed a unanimous resolution to proceed with ABM (anti-ballistic missile). That’s the way I heard it, anyway.
Unsurprisingly, Zero wants to kill the ABM program, the only thing that could prevent the EMP attack.
A 1MT device detonated 400 miles over Kansas would take out every computer chip from Maine to Baja CaliforniaI beg to differ. Present thinking has a different perspective on this ...