Bart Bailey wrote:

Pure hysterical bull****, any EMP at all would have been very weak from
a ground blast (where you see mushroom clouds) or non existent.
And even in a high altitude blast a battery radio wouldn't be affected
unless connected to a very long antenna.

How close was it? It was close enough to see overhead. Would that be
close enough?

You also don't know the kind of bomb it was. In two years there may be
an EMP bomb that has been under development and kept secret.

and the tube ones died when the electricty went out.

yet there's enough electricity to run the happy hour pub with its
ceiling mounted TV

Not after the EMP. Everthing died including the electrical grid. For
all we know that may have been the source of the EMP (which would mean
that radios still worked).

Now that there is electricity again we'll see what comes out of hiding.

Thing you have to keep in mind is that the closest thing they have to
anyone with real technical knowledge is an insane ham and a high school
science teacher with a bad memory.

They havent even set up some sort of telegraph between the bridge
and town. It does not need to be electrical, there were mechanical
telegraph systems long before electrical ones.

IMHO you are judging it as if the cold war never ended, they are
acting like it never happened. Having come of age in the 1960's
I really think it's an accurate depeciton of what would happen.

In the late 1960's I was thinking of how to turn a walk in closet
into a fallout shelter and photographic darkroom. People like the
ones in Jericho were trying to use fallout shelter loans to build
in-ground swiming pools.

Geoff.

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