I came across this article just a few days after I read a novel about an EMP attack on the US (and China and Korea). The book is One Second After by William R. Forstchen. The first thing I thought of when reading the description of the book was Starfish Prime, the nuclear test that caused an EMP that took out a lot of electrical equipment (even streetlights) in Hawaii in the early '60s, then the Carrington Event, which was mentioned in this article. Before Starfish Prime, the concept of a nuclear EMP was known, but the magnitude turned out to be surprising. Back in the '70s and '80s when I was into ham radio, a lot of operators made a point to have hardened transceivers and power sources in case of EMP.
I came across this article just a few days after I read a novel about an EMP attack on the US (and China and Korea). The book is One Second After by William R. Forstchen. The first thing I thought of when reading the description of the book was Starfish Prime, the nuclear test that caused an EMP that took out a lot of electrical equipment (even streetlights) in Hawaii in the early '60s, then the Carrington Event, which was mentioned in this article. Before Starfish Prime, the concept of a nuclear EMP was known, but the magnitude turned out to be surprising. Back in the '70s and '80s when I was into ham radio, a lot of operators made a point to have hardened transceivers and power sources in case of EMP.