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Fat chance. This “EMP is going to ruin the world!” thing has gotten out of hand.

Even if everything, from having the correct nuclear bomb in the first place, to having a missile that can get it into high altitude over the US, to the actual EMP getting into long wire devices, etc., were to be in place the damage would be very minimal and corrected within hours and days.

EMP DOES NOT destroy all things electrical and electronic, counter to what all the ignorant survivalist types claim otherwise.

“EMP DOES NOT destroy all things electrical and electronic, counter to what all the ignorant survivalist types claim otherwise”

LOL. I hear ya. I’ve seen people claim “anything with an electric motor”, etc.

The only devices threatened are microprocessor circuits. Granted, a lot of things have them today, but they are not uniformly vulnerable (ie mounting, enclosures, type, etc), and then only within some radius of the burst.

Fat chance. This “EMP is going to ruin the world!” thing has gotten out of hand.

Even if everything, from having the correct nuclear bomb in the first place, to having a missile that can get it into high altitude over the US, to the actual EMP getting into long wire devices, etc., were to be in place the damage would be very minimal and corrected within hours and days.

EMP DOES NOT destroy all things electrical and electronic, counter to what all the ignorant survivalist types claim otherwise.

Agreed. Most cars will still run after an EMP attack, the body acts as a Faraday shield. The car will quit but you have a 90% plus chance of restarting it and get where your going although there have been some tests where on a few cars, your gauges might not work. Your transistor radio would most likely work. He main problem is that it could trip the power grid and electricity will be down in many areas and until you can reset the breakers and so on, that would be a problem. Pumping gas would be a problem of course unless you have a generator, a 12 volt pump or a hand pump. EMP is not the 800 lbs gorilla it is made out to be, more like a 500 lbs one.

“EMP DOES NOT destroy all things electrical and electronic”

It will destroy enough, and “enough” is all it takes. The panic afterward alone will be something like this World has never seen. You think 9/11 cause chaos, wait until most of the 8,000 aircraft in the sky fall out of the sky all at once. What would it matter that a certain percentage of electronic EMP hardened equipment does not shut down?.

The biggest problem is the destruction of power transformers for major power lines.
* They take 18 months to make
* We don’t have a national stockpile of them
* And when ruined by EMP, the only choices are pay a premium to import them or have local grids offline (assuming they aren’t getting power from a local power plant) for a year and a half

If someone really wanted to cause trouble, set off an EMP by Google headquarter OR several major power junctions for the national grid. One shuts down Google and the Pacific Northwest that sends power to the west coast, the other prevents national power grid from functioning properly.