Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The EMP Threat - WSJ.com
If you need something to worry about, this seems like the perfect scenario...
The Wall Street Journal describes it:
"An EMP attack occurs when a nuclear bomb explodes high in the Earth's atmosphere. The electromagnetic pulse generated by the blast destroys all the electronics in its line of sight. For a bomb detonated over the Midwest, that includes most of the continental U.S. Few, if any, people die in the blast. It's what comes next that has the potential to be catastrophic. Since an EMP surge wipes out electronics, virtually every aspect of modern American life would come to a standstill."
