Is "Prepping" Practical Or Paranoia?

[TheWraith]

132. I doubt that it would be that successful.

An EMP powerful enough to kill everything electronic would be hard to accomplish. But even a relatively ineffective strike, just crippling power grids and the like, would still do massive amounts of damage as well as loss of life. How many airliners, containing how many people, would be within the EMP zone if you detonated one bomb over the eastern US? There's 23,000 scheduled flights per day in the US... if only one tenth of those were in the air within 1,000 miles, and each one contained an average of 100 people, that would be more people dead than were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki put together, just in planes. Not counting the people the planes landed on, or the hospitals shut down by the loss of power, or the fires caused by the sudden shorting out and possibly explosion of millions of transformers.