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Does anybody have any idea where this specific resurgent fear came from? The first place I came across it recently was, astonishingly, in the GOP 2016 platform
by jameshart 10y ago
Does anybody have any idea where this specific resurgent fear came from? The first place I came across it recently was, astonishingly, in the GOP 2016 platform [1] - there's a section on page 54 which makes the quite remarkable claim that "A single nuclear weapon detonated at high altitude over this country would collapse our electrical grid and other critical infrastructures and endanger the lives of millions" - this seems like SUCH an out there risk to specifically address that I figure there must be some particular source...
[1] https://prod-static-ngop-pbl.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FINAL[1]-ben_1468872234.pdf https://prod-static-ngop-pbl.s3.amazonaws.com/media/document...
- Alex3917 10y ago> Does anybody have any idea where this specific resurgent fear came from? https://www.google.com/search?q=wsj+emp&oq=wsj+emp&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.2092j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=site:wsj.com+emp https://www.google.com/search?q=wsj+emp&oq=wsj+emp&aqs=chrom...
- taneq 10y agoI'd imagine it's a plausible modern update of the Cold War fears for nuclear war. Instead of a thousand nukes, you just get one super-effective one. It's been a semi-common trope in apocalypse fiction, too - for instance, the TV show Dark Angel was set in a post-EMP U.S.