Looks like a missile designed to trigger an EMP from 250+ miles up over northern central Kansas should manage to burn out the grid in 95+% of the CONUS.
That’s equally fascinating and terrifying. According to that document, a 300mi detonation could take out most of North America. I will say many utilities have been implementing “hardening” techniques that supposedly safeguard against EMPs.
Something going off like that article mentions is essentially one big ass lightning strike that covers an entire continent. Same with solar flares an EMP would overload most non-protected electrical circuits
Looks like a missile designed to trigger an EMP from 250+ miles up over northern central Kansas should manage to burn out the grid in 95+% of the CONUS.
https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/files/Ebomb.pdf
That’s equally fascinating and terrifying. According to that document, a 300mi detonation could take out most of North America. I will say many utilities have been implementing “hardening” techniques that supposedly safeguard against EMPs.
Something going off like that article mentions is essentially one big ass lightning strike that covers an entire continent. Same with solar flares an EMP would overload most non-protected electrical circuits