Only the old bikes survive the big Zap?

 This guy was on C-span Books today. Fascinating concept, It is Semi
Fiction. EMP is real, the story is fiction, set 1 second after a
nuclear device sends out an electro-magnetic pulse....and the world
goes  quiet...



New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us
a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one
man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town
after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America
back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic
Pulse (EMP).  A weapon that may already be in the hands of our
enemies.

Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on
the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book
already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly
realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire
United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the
Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of
On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical
American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our
end.

 

Will wrote:

I worked at the Trestle Site in the early 1980s,  The largest EMP
simulator in the world, at that time.  The EMP pulse was generated by
two banks of Marx generators, discharged simultaneously to cover the
target or test area.

The newer cars in the employee parking lot were all disabled by the
first full power shot.  Some were only disabled temporarily , and some
permanently.  The cars with distributors and points were OK.

Ed

 
Mr. Forstchen may not know it but US Navy ships since the 80s are pretty
much EMP hardened - including the missile systems.  I must assume that the
Army and 'farce's critical gear are too.  So the US might lose, but not in a
second......

 
How many Navy ships, or B-52's in a "Small Carolina town"?

Did you ever watch the movie "The Day After"? I think the name is a
spin off on that.  And who "Looses" a war...the people of all
combatant Countries...

 
Modern military aircraft are hardened as best they can so that they can
operate in a nuclear environment.  Same for ships I'd assume.

This link is interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

Apparently it is possible to construct a weapon to operate over distances of
hundreds of miles.  Interesting.

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