“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.
Not even a microprocessor will be affected. There simply isn’t enough EMF generated by EMP to create enough energy to harm anything that small. Inductance is the name of the game here and EMP just doesn’t provide enough energy to induce high enough currents in such short wires to do damage. Nearby Lightening bolts generate more force and we don’t all freak out about those and we recover just fine from those bolts that do strike things like power lines.
Not even a microprocessor will be affected. There simply isn’t enough EMF generated by EMP to create enough energy to harm anything that small. Inductance is the name of the game here and EMP just doesn’t provide enough energy to induce high enough currents in such short wires to do damage. Nearby Lightening bolts generate more force and we don’t all freak out about those and we recover just fine from those bolts that do strike things like power lines.