“An EMP attack, as I detail in my new book Pulse Attack, is a nuclear detonation that occurs in the atmosphere and creates a waveform that can take down the electrical grid below.”
Not unless, with enough NatSec notice, most likely affected grid segments are shut down first. And you think our NatSec planners do not understand that, not matter what has been said publicly??
With an EMP, electronics get fried when they are on or off. At least that is how I understand it.
I almost agree with you.
The grid can be ‘shut down’ for a solar pulse, the so-called Carrington effect pulse, because that pulse is long-wave, slow rise, and sensitive components can be isolated from induced currents and thus protected.
I am however unconvinced that the controlling electronics are protected from the nuclear E3 (X-ray -> electrons) pulse. That’s is the technology killer for the grid.
Here: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32544.pdf