Nick, On Friday 01 July 2005 14:13, Nick Jones wrote:
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Pete,
I couldn't agree with you more. EMP is a very real and very scary thing that people should be aware of and prepared for.
True as far as it goes, but the only way to produce the kind of EMP that would disable, say, a whole city is to detonate a nuclear warhead high in the atmosphere. If someone has a nuke and is willing to use it, then I choose loss of electronic systems (air burst) over loss of my life (ground burst) any day. To turn away from solid state electronics or render them all EMP-shielded would be uncalled for. Although it's not the way we're doing things now, it makes a hell of a lot more sense to stop creating enemies than it does to try to make yourself impervious to every conceivable, or even every feasible mode of attack those enemies could muster. And don't forget, out there somewhere is an asteroid or a comet with our name on it!
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-Nick
Randall Schulz