So I just finished reading One Second After and all in all I thought it was a very interesting, although dark, read. It basically follows a smallish American town after the United States is struck by a EMP, knocking out power to the entire country, making cars, trains, planes, etc. all unusable (for the most part), and making all other electronic devices fail as well. The effect snowballs, as food, medicines, and other supplies (obviously, as transportation ceases to happen) stop arriving to stores.
The chance of a disaster like this actually occurring is quite low, and the only ones likely to pull it off would be a rouge nation or terrorist network who gets their hands on a nuclear device - and have the capability to launch it extremely high into the atmosphere.
While reading I felt that some parts of the book are written to the extreme, and it probably is, to make a point. Yes, there is certainly going to be deaths if something like this did happen, and obviously our lives would be greatly inconvenienced compared to the ones we live now, but I am doubtful it would get as bad and dark as it does in the book. I would have to think that the military has plans drawn up for this and infrastructure in place that the civilian network does not.
The book is likely purposely written to the extreme as it was written to try and open America's eyes that we need to protect our infrastructure from EMP attacks. To be honest, its written in a way that makes you want to go out right now and start prepping for a disaster such as this.
Research has shown that some smaller electronics and cars could survive most EMPs, but for the most part in the book, none of these items survived.
Has anyone else read this book? What are you views on this type of scenario?
The chance of a disaster like this actually occurring is quite low, and the only ones likely to pull it off would be a rouge nation or terrorist network who gets their hands on a nuclear device - and have the capability to launch it extremely high into the atmosphere.
While reading I felt that some parts of the book are written to the extreme, and it probably is, to make a point. Yes, there is certainly going to be deaths if something like this did happen, and obviously our lives would be greatly inconvenienced compared to the ones we live now, but I am doubtful it would get as bad and dark as it does in the book. I would have to think that the military has plans drawn up for this and infrastructure in place that the civilian network does not.
The book is likely purposely written to the extreme as it was written to try and open America's eyes that we need to protect our infrastructure from EMP attacks. To be honest, its written in a way that makes you want to go out right now and start prepping for a disaster such as this.
Research has shown that some smaller electronics and cars could survive most EMPs, but for the most part in the book, none of these items survived.
Has anyone else read this book? What are you views on this type of scenario?
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