Friend, you are either very misinformed, or very uninformed. The threat posed by HEMP (the "H" is for "High") is very real, and could be our undoing.
It could be our undoing because what will our kids do when the X-box doesn’t work, or their MP3 players are dead, or the interwebs aren’t working!!!!!!!
While I agree that it would hurt America as a whole, it wouldn’t be the end of the world, specifically in rural areas where we can still hunt, fish, grow crops, and get water without the aid of “the grid” or big brother.
Sorry pal. I used to sleep with the damn things (nukes). Stick to TEOTWAWKI books and Tom Clancy books FRiend.
I'll listen to the scientists at Los Alamos, researchers at Y-12 and Pantex, intel weenies at Kirkland AFB, SIOP planners at Omaha, convoy commanders that I rode with, and my fellow NMCs I worked with at DOE.
I didnt say EMP is a myth....just overhyped. If a nuke designed for massive EMP (an enhanced EMP weapon) goes off above America, I'd be alot more worried about the soon to be inbound R-36MUTTH/R-36M2 and Topel-M's coming in at 18k MPH over the poles to hit our LCCs and silos in the mid-west.
With that being said.....I'm a helluva lot more worried about Marxists Presidents, communist congresscritters, complicit media, stupid "gimmie mo" voters, the flu (and antigen shifts thereof), bio weapons, diseases coming across the border, locusts, earthquakes, plagues, zombies, running out of toilet paper, my wife using my credit card, etc., than I am of TEOTWAWKI via EMP. Great for selling books, bad to dwell on.