I know this is an enormous topic and there are many aspects to it, but I am thinking on a much lower, more personal scale. If an EMP hit be it Coronal Mass Ejection or Nuclear attack will your personal electronic devices be destroyed or can they be repaired?
Will all vehicles post 1980 be scrap metal, or can the electronics be removed and replaced? Will every single electric appliance be junk, or can they be fixed? Will the electric appliances in your house be destroyed? Electrically, what will happen to your house? Can it be salvaged? For that matter every other residential and commercial building? Can they be salvaged? Will all of the electrical equipment in the world or in the affected area be junk?
It is one thing to think about what you would do if it happens. How would you survive? What would you do in the interim? Thinking about it in a longer perspective the replacement effort would be staggering. Something the world has never seen. Anybody else ever thought about this?
Will all vehicles post 1980 be scrap metal, or can the electronics be removed and replaced? Will every single electric appliance be junk, or can they be fixed? Will the electric appliances in your house be destroyed? Electrically, what will happen to your house? Can it be salvaged? For that matter every other residential and commercial building? Can they be salvaged? Will all of the electrical equipment in the world or in the affected area be junk?
It is one thing to think about what you would do if it happens. How would you survive? What would you do in the interim? Thinking about it in a longer perspective the replacement effort would be staggering. Something the world has never seen. Anybody else ever thought about this?