Why “bomb” is being discussed
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The EMP effect depends on there being atmosphere to generate electrical fields from the bomb gamma flux. Being close enough and line of sight from the atmosphere can be sufficie…
by jdougan · Sep 15, 2026
> That said, it'd take far more than one bomb to take down a country, unless we are talking city states Hit the ten biggest metropolitan areas [1] with one nuke each and you'd h…
by mschuster91 · Sep 15, 2026
The US famously did that in the 60s (detonating nukes at roughly the height of today's ISS)[1]. Also some less famous ones, including a Soviet test that resulted in the EMP dest…
by wongarsu · Sep 15, 2026
Iran is 90 million people and a gigantic mass of land. Go read some history about what industrial quantity of ordinance was required to somewhat destroy European cities in the 4…
by mrguyorama · Sep 15, 2026
Right, so we definitely have the ability to commit genocide, but we lack the ability to dismantle the government without being monsters. To actually do the hard thing that the t…
by cogman10 · Sep 15, 2026
> The ideal scenario is everyone suspects it's you but can't prove it. Why? EU countries have shown time and time again they won't do anything. I mean for God's sake, Russia was…
by spwa4 · Sep 15, 2026
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