Jim Hampton wrote:
Does it matter? Really?

A single atomic device will wreck havoc for a limited area, larger if it
is exploded higher off the ground. The reality will be other countries
joining in the fray. It could be a real mess. Myself, I'd rather be
above ground and die in the initial blast than survive that and start
fighting with folks for food (preferably not radioactive). That would
be a long and painful death.

You'll have to forgive the lateness in my reply; I've installed Ubuntu
and don't have newsgroups installed on that side. I fire up Vista
perhaps once a week or so as it is so slow. With Ubuntu, it is perhaps
20 seconds from turning on power to reading my e-mail or surfing the
web. No anti-virus to update. Updates on the system, even 7 or 8 files
totaling 10 MB or so take only perhaps 20 seconds to download *and*
install. No reboot. No pain. Just blazing speed.

I hate Vista. It is a real slug.


Best regards from Rochester, NY
Jim



73 from Rochester, NY
Jim


"Will" wrote in message
...
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.

Guys,
Remember the television show "Dark Angel" with Jessica Alba?
It was based on the after effects of an EMP.
Any large nuclear explosion, especially a 10 Megaton would create enough
EMP to knock out most of a coast electrically with no blast damage.
It's possible now to detonate a 50 megaton (100 with Pu added) at about
200,000 feet which would make a mess out of ground networks and fry any
satellite that was too close.
It isn't science fiction but fact.
Bill Baka