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Dark Energy: Off-Grid Power, Field-Ready Design
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Recusant
Hellcat
Good to know!
Most radiation has a short half life. Some uranium,radium are longer. Check the downwind maps from the nearest probable target. If you are able to shelter under some protection ( maybe that is what I can use the lead I use casting bullets for!), and have supplies available your chances I prove drastically.
Talyn
SAINT
An EMP could occur without any exposure to radiation, and occur without a nuclear explosion. Two entirely different things.
Electromagnetic pulse - Wikipedia
Besides eveyone gets radiation exposure every day you step outdoors, or when exposed to radon.
Talyn
SAINT
Also this if you're mobile & want to protec electronics.
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A nuke in space would give the effect you describe. There is “radiation” and then there is “RADIATION”. An EMP attack would certainly be devastating with little physical damage other than toasted electronics, Given today’s world where everything is electronic driven/controlled the folks that would be best off are the Amish. The rest of us are screwed. You ‘ll either live off the land or perish. Anything not in a faraday cage will be toast.An EMP could occur without any exposure to radiation, and occur without a nuclear explosion. Two entirely different things.
Electromagnetic pulse - Wikipedia
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Besides eveyone gets radiation exposure every day you step outdoors, or when exposed to radon.
Cedric
Custom
1. EMP was known before nuclear test shots. The Starfish Prime test was in 1962 (I think) and was a high atmospheric shot of 1.4 MT over Johnson Atoll. Some lights went out in Hawaii and radio comms were disrupted IIRC. They knew there would be EMP just not as much as was produced. What Starfish showed, and later experimentation is that EMP over a large area as depicted in movies is highly dependent on altitude, yield, location in the belts of the magnetosphere and other space weather parameters. IOW, an adversary would have to plan and execute an EMP attack with precision and not just get lucky with a high altitude burst. Folks at Dept of Energy have written a lot on this and a lot more than I can absorb.
2. Amounts of radiation depend on type of burst, yield and type of bomb. US philosophy has been to have as clean bombs as possible and use airbursts to minimize fallout. We wanted to destroy enemy forces and facilities. Russia was a fan of lots of fallout for area denial and general nastiness. This is counter-intuitive, but despite getting gobs of energy from a nuclear explosion, the warheads are highly inefficient. There is a lot of uranium/plutonium thrown about but the main culprits are the by products of the detonation. The nasty one is Strontium-90. For reference, a nuclear detonation energy is 50% blast, 35% thermal, 5% initial radiation, 10% residual radiation (fallout or ground contamination.
2. Amounts of radiation depend on type of burst, yield and type of bomb. US philosophy has been to have as clean bombs as possible and use airbursts to minimize fallout. We wanted to destroy enemy forces and facilities. Russia was a fan of lots of fallout for area denial and general nastiness. This is counter-intuitive, but despite getting gobs of energy from a nuclear explosion, the warheads are highly inefficient. There is a lot of uranium/plutonium thrown about but the main culprits are the by products of the detonation. The nasty one is Strontium-90. For reference, a nuclear detonation energy is 50% blast, 35% thermal, 5% initial radiation, 10% residual radiation (fallout or ground contamination.
Oldmountaiman
Elite
Note as many don't feel a large bomb would be a good idea as the use on smaller bombs would be a better way to take the country. If that were to happen storing your phone in the microwave oven would make it safe as it is a faraday cage or box. They also have small faraday bags available for your phone and remember your pistol/rifle would be useless unless there is the cage.
Talyn
SAINT
??? All of my rifle/pistol will work fine after an EMP. They are not affected by an EMP.
EMP waves pass through glass that's why a steel box or faraday bag, like the one I posted above, is needed, as I indicated above.
Oldmountaiman
Elite
Yeah I didn't punch in electronic site, little letters on phone and I am tired, been a long couple days. So since I just have old fashion sights all mine work to. In early 2000 I was at a demonstration of a small non nucular emp and it was amazing.