XPost: sci.military.moderated   
   From: root@mauve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In sci.space.tech Jordan179  wrote:   
   > Dirk Bruere at Neopax  wrote in message news:   
   c61lvb$6ukgf$1@ID-120108.news.uni-berlin.de>...   
   >> Gordon D. Pusch wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > I think you are forgetting about a little thing called "The Inverse   
   Square Law"...   
   >>   
   >> We could try some figures.   
   >> 1Mt detonation with (say) 25% of its energy as X and Gamma radiation.   
      
   > Now I think you're forgetting about a little thing called "the Earth's   
   > atmosphere."  While your math would probably work out in a vacuum, in   
   > order to fry electronics at the surface, the EMP has to get through   
   > the atmosphere in the first place, and the atmosphere contains layers   
   of charged particles which could interfere with the pulse.   
      
   Read back, and you'll find that the statement was that a megaton   
   exoatmospheric detonation will kill all unhardened satellites in line   
   of sight.   
      
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