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btbytesonSep 5, 2019

There is a whole book on the ill effects of too much light in modern times -- Lights Out (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lights-Out/T-S-Wiley/...)

ufmaceonJuly 25, 2016

The book I read is actually One Second After by William R. Forstchen. I looked up the "Lights Out" by Crawford, and it looks like it was published about 20 months after, at least according to Amazon. I'm not sure who copied who when, just saying that that's the book I read, and it's a pretty good story, if probably technically unrealistic and a little full of standard prepper tropes.

Thanks for the real-world info, though. You're saying that modern cars are pretty much unaffected by EMPs, in addition to trucks, locomotives, and other major infrastructure? Does this cover all realistic strengths of EMP effect? Are we talking like the only way the EMP effect could hurt anything is if the bomb is close enough to physically destroy it anyways? So no realistic likelihood of damage from the orbital nuke scenario, no matter the power level of the bomb?

FWIW, I associate "prepper" with wildly impractical and poorly thought out levels of preparation for wildly unlikely disasters. Being prepared for things that are realistic and have actually happened in the recent past is just common sense.

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