Really? Close the barn door after the horse runs off?
What we need is a battle plan to eliminate the threat.
You couldn’t be more right!
Our plans to survive an EMP attack - and yes, One Second After, though quite poorly written, paints a good picture of the effects - are like a person making a self-defense plan in a gun fight.
Imagine you’re in a field with no natural cover. You watch a guy named Iran a long way away. You know he wants to kill you. He’s loading his handgun’s mags .45 with T-Series rounds as he begins to cross the field towards you to get in range. His intent is clear.
Besides a holstered 1911 as a backup, you have an M14 with a round already chambered, and many mags of ammo, but you leave it lying on the ground next to you, deciding instead that the best course of action is to make sure you have a bullet-proof vest on - you don’t have one, but you spend a lot of time trying to fashion something protective to wear out of things lying around you on the ground. And while you do this, Iran is coming closer.
You decide then that it might be a good idea to put together and gather to hand some battle dressings and antibiotics and fluids to help you survive the wounds he will inflict. Maybe a bit of food and such to ride out the prolonged recovery you might expect if you survive. You check your bag to see what you’ve got, and scurry around to see what you can improvise from material at hand. You make plans for crawling off to get more after you’re shot, if you can. He’s getting closer.
Then it occurs to you that a cell phone with the numbers of neighbors and emergency responders might be helpful after he’s unloaded his mags into your body. You scurry through your pack to make sure you have that at hand. You can’t be too prepared. He’s almost in range now.
Without upsetting him with a threat of any sort, you then try to talk him out of his attack. He says nothing.
As he gets in range, brings his handgun up to target your center of mass, and squeezes the trigger, you find yourself engaged in an internal debate about any other last minute preparations you need to make, and about how best to proceed once the bullets strike.
Lights out.