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To: Reno89519

The sun is 93 million miles away. (I rounded up, but you’d hardly notice. The Carrington event happened before we had much electricity. If it happened today, chances are most of the world would be left in the dark. https://www.history.com/news/a-perfect-solar-superstorm-the-1859-carrington-event

The nuclear attack scenarios during the cold war had both sides exploding high altitude air bursts in an overlapping pattern of three at a time. The idea was to keep the civilian world and much of the military world in the dark.

As an engineer, I did EMP testing on equipment my company produced for the military. It is very real. Most military equipment is supposedly hardened. But imagine a huge voltage spike hitting everything in your house. You’d smell the smoke.

One bomb probably wouldn’t do in the entire country. But a series of bombs would cause many secondary deaths due to plane and car crashes, people dying in hospitals and among people who require special medication. Also, the logistics of everyday life would be severely interrupted. This isn’t something like a hurricane where repair crews can drive in to the affected area and get everything up and running again. This is the New York blackout times 1,000.Then throw in practically every car that was running at the time of the attack.


11 posted on 05/23/2018 1:05:53 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

A few nuclear scientists at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore who studied this specific effect would disagree with you here.


18 posted on 05/23/2018 1:26:09 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Gen.Blather

LOL !

You have a way of saying that and yet the Parties listening still think it all smells like Roses.

I’m still counting the Trickle down Chaos in the Domino Effect in My head.


24 posted on 05/23/2018 1:55:58 PM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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