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"Read with special notice of what EMPs actually kill (radio transmissions, cell phones, etc.)."

The guy sounds nuts, but massive EMPs would kill millions within months due to the total disruption of the power grid and the disabling of virtually all electronic systems. Any airplane in flight would go down, people dependent on insulin and other drugs and high-tech medical treatment would die within days or weeks, food supplies would be severely disrupted, there would be starvation and civil insurrection. Within days, stores would be empty of all their food supplies, and roving bands of thugs would shoot to kill to obtain food. Fuel supplies would be cut off and many would freeze to death during the winter. Water quality and availability would rapidly deteriorate. 300 millions might not die, but I would guess that 40 million or more might die within six months.