[thegreatbeast]

I've been reading about these things for years. Nasty stuff! In the twink of an eye they can deliver you to a prehistoric lifestyle. Your radio don't work. Your electric toothbrush or can-opener. Your lawnmower is instantly a sculpture. No stove. No AC. No heat. Your car is now a planter. Eat what is in your refrigerator and freezer real quick. Unless you have parts, beaucoup parts, that somehow were shielded, you ain't gonna resurrect any of this stuff either. Everything is fried. Fried. You know how to build a fire?
Don't think either that the government has enough stuff shielded to make a difference in your life. They don't. You will be living like a Neanderthal for months.

[Bush2000]

Nasty stuff! In the twink of an eye they can deliver you to a prehistoric lifestyle

That's right. Any electronic equipment that's close enough to the bomb radius would be decimated. Very nice for taking out pesky SAM missile sites where we only know the general area and it happens to be occupied by civilians. Saddam thinks his people have it bad now? Wait til the generators don't work and the trucks stop running.

[CatoRenasci]

Interestingly, these things mostly fry modern transistor based electronics and microciruitry. You best chance for survival is with old-fashioned tube electronics with wired circuitry. A lively topic of discussion when I was on active duty in the '70s. We kept a number of older tube/hardwired computers in service precisely because they were considered more EMP survivable than the better newer equipment. Don't know if that's still true.