Well sur-prise. Now they want to cut that check to Ukraine.
Seriously, i figured anyone attacking our communications systems would simply deploy a low altitude EMP.
For EMPs to be effective, it would be a high altitude detonation. A low level detonation is simply a nuclear attack.
To my knowledge an EMP bomb is a nuclear bomb.
Well a high altitude nuke works better due to the Compton Effect. But yeah, that’s why you put a nuke in space. No need to waste a nuke on satellites.
Never mind the Norks have two satellites in N-S polar orbit that traverse the continental US 2 or three times a day.
Oh, and they are known to be powered and operating, but have never transmitted. Despite being announced as comes birds.