“Our life is very vulnerable. And recovery won’t be a week or two but months and years.”
Your life won’t hardly be interrupted by an EMP burst over the US. Worst case is you reboot your computer, but your computer won’t be destroyed. Neither will your car, nor your local transformers, no much of anything else.
Lightening has far more EMP behind it than a nuclear EMP device. Far more. I live high in the Rocky Mountains and have hundreds of lightening strikes every year strike all around me. My trees are scarred from it all. I and my electronics are still here.
ESD (Lightening) is a different wavelength than an EMP.
EMP is broadband and include frequencies and wavelengths that are tuned to the electronics. ESD is brute force, a tuned frequency attack is targeted.
Also, the entry method for ESD/lightening is well known and easily controlled. It is usually conducted but it can be induced (secondary affect). Induced is less intense. Of course, shunt devices like a MOV works well or cap. Devices are designed with some level of immunity to ESD. Likewise, a system that includes the device electronics will also include some immunity. But it is not perfect. It all depends on cost — a more immunity, more cost (and weight).
EM noise sources are different and is designed to couple into the electronics circuit. The goal is to destroy the PN junction of an electronic device and it only takes the destruction of one element within the chip to make it and the whole system non-functional.
If you are lucky to be far enough away, it may result in a reset and recovery of your equipment, if you are too close, it will destroy the PN junction and your device will be unrepairable. And that includes the whole infrastructure that makes all of the gadgets work. So, even though your car might be working, if the stoplights are not working then there is chaos.
Yes, and no. You're correct for the most part, in that an EMP burst over the USA is not going to kill a lot of personal electronics and stuff. But it will travel over power transmission lines and destroy transformers, which will take months to manufacture due to low inventory stocks. In the meantime, power will be disrupted and cause some panics. Most people's stuff in homes will be safe and not overloaded due to an EMP burst.
“Your life won’t hardly be interrupted by an EMP burst over the US. Worst case is you reboot your computer”
Still angry with proven physics, I see.
Did you ever read those papers Conrad Longmire wrote that I linked for you?
Apparently not.
“Lightening has far more EMP behind it than a nuclear EMP device. Far more.”
Lightning presents a much different EM signature than a nuclear EMP. So much so that your comparison is irrelevant.