One Second After is a novel describing the possible outcome of such an event [1]. It's a pretty good read. Months before publication, One Second After has alre

One Second After is a novel describing the possible outcome of such an event [1]. It's a pretty good read. Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end. [1] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4922079-one-second-after http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4922079-one-second-after (note that the synopsis given is wrong, I think. I recall that the event in the book was from a war, but simply unexplained because the normal folks had no way of knowing what the source of the EMP was.)