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Old March 31st 09, 02:26 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Bob Dobbs wrote:
Bushcraftgregg wrote:
On Mar 28, 9:13 pm, Bob Dobbs wrote:
Bushcraftgregg wrote:

Well thanks Bob, now I feel a lot better about that situation. Your
credentials please? ;-)
Read the forth paragraphhttp://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/emp.htm

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Operator Bob
Echo Charlie 42

The key word there is "tend." I hope neither of us ever find out. I
saw on either the history or military channel....probably military
channel, a gentleman (don't know his credentials) explained what would
happen if there was an EMP blast and then explained what damage would
occur depending on the altitude at which the bomb exploded. At one of
the levels he said what many of us have heard at one time or another,
that anything with updated technology would be fried. He did say that
older technology "would more than likely" not be affected. Hope we
never find out.


You can find any number of hysterical alarmists and conspiracy theorists
that would agree with him, and likely have just as ethereal credentials.

FWIW: I live in SoCal (a prime military target zone) and am not worried.
I'm much more worried about those howling rabid chupacabras just outside
the back door, gnawing on my coax g


We have abandoned Nike bases to remind us that the madness has always
been with us.