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can radio stations withstand an E.M.P.?

Japan's Hiroshima Nuclear detonation was at 580 meters. It was a 12 megaton bomb. Relatively small. My recall on the population numbers was way off.

Maximum temperature at burst point: several million degrees centigrade. A fireball of 15-meters radius formed in 0.1 millisecond, with a temperature of 300,000 degrees centigrade, and expanded to its huge maximum size in one second. The top of the atomic cloud reached an altitude of 17,000 meters.

Deaths. With an uncertain population figure, the death toll could only be estimated. According to data submitted to the United Nations by Hiroshima City in 1976, the death count reached 140,000 (plus or minus 10,000) by the end of December, 1945. Persons qualifying for treatment under the A-bomb Victims Medical Care law of 1957 received Health Cards; holders as of March 31, 1990, numbered 352,550.

http://mothra.rerf.or.jp/ENG/A-bomb/History/Damages.html

Current bombs exceed 12 megaton by a bunch. A Chicago blast of this newer type of bomb would kill from fallout people in Indy. An indy blast could easily kill over a million people.
 
justalurker said:
What a pleasant subject! :)
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i would Welcome an E.M.P if thats what it would take to get Ryan Seacrest & John Tesh off the radio.
 
I would think the evil doers would try for a detonation at 10-15 times the altitude of the Hiroshima blast. The idea would be to propagate the EMP blast over as wide an area as possible.
 
cspotrun said:
justalurker said:
What a pleasant subject! :)
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i would Welcome an E.M.P if thats what it would take to get Ryan Seacrest & John Tesh off the radio.
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That would be a sad day ... especially if it happened at night. Then, we'd be stuck with Delilah. Not what I'd like to hear while enroute to the ever after.
 
Too funny, guys! Thanks.

She'd probably play "You Light Up My Life."
 
bigtime said:
If the Iranians, North Koreans, Taliban etc. managed to pop one high altitude nuke over Chicago the blast probably wouldn't kill that many people, but it would shut the mid section of the country down for a long time and there would probably be rampaging hordes. Wonder if our all knowing government has a plan for that possiblility.
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From Arthur Godfrey's wikipedia page:

Godfrey's immense popularity and the trust placed in him by audiences was noticed not just by advertisers but by his friend U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, who asked him to record a number of public service announcements to be played on American television in the case of nuclear war. It was thought that viewers would be reassured by Godfrey's grandfatherly tone and folksy manner. The existence of the PSA tapes was confirmed in 2004 by former CBS president Dr. Frank Stanton in an exchange with a writer with the Web site CONELRAD.

Maybe they have replaced Godfrey with Regis. :)
 
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