“Anybody know anything about the group that sponsored this? “
I don’t even know their name.
But you can bet they have found a way to get paid from it.
There is no plausible man-made EMP that would take out the US, or the entire east coast for that matter.
Hundreds of megatons at 300 miles up? Maybe.
But nobody has bombs that big and very, very few have the lift capacity to get it that high. Certainly not the Norklandians or Iran.
But an enormous solar flare could do it. I stress enormous.
Correct.
Sorry my understanding is that there is a Cascade effect if the nuke detonates over the atmosphere. So a regular sized nuke can have a continental effect.
“But an enormous solar flare could do it. I stress enormous.”
Thank goodness we will have a protective blanket of CO2 emissions covering the planet to protect us from those deadly emissions!