I'm still curious with all the above ground and air nuclear testing in the 50's and 60's why this never occurred. Also, what ever happened to all the fallout that was supposed to kill the world back then? Too small of yield?
Help me here, nuclear physicists.
Overblown hysterical crap.
Yes, EMP can wipe out limited number of gadgets, especially solid state gizmos with wires attached to them.
Old tube type gizmos, cars without computer crap and most electrical appliances unlikely to be affected.
It is the quetion of how long “antenna” (wires attached) to gizmo and signal (EMP) levels produced to exceed the gizmo’s sensitivity to induced voltages (within limited range).
Keep disconnected what is not needed, old cars with distributors, better - diesel engines, have generator for the life after EMP.
oh, aaaaand vote the bastRATs out into oblivion!!!!!
In the 50’s and 60’s, most equipment was vacuum tube and transistor, it was fairly hard to start with. As for the fallout, most of the tests were conducted as airbursts, plus they were conducted in the middle of nowhere for the really big ones.
It did occur.
One is now a soccer stadium the other a park.
They are not hot spots humans cannot go to for 20,000 years as we were told years ago.
On electronics older stuff tubes relays type stuff will not be affected.
It did happen -- look up "Starfish Prime".
The two important factors are :
1) height in the atmosphere (250 miles is pretty good)
2) Gamma rays produced by the warhead (knocks electrons in the upper atmosphere loose, they get accelerated by the Earth's magnetic field).
Try looking at this post and follow the links in it.
Cheers!