![]() No communications of any kind whether it’s a landline, mobile or internet. Imagine a city, county or state without power. So an EMP attack could immediately fry all electronics in a large radius and then continue to degrade systems in orbit. The persistent radiation from the tests conducted by the United States and the Soviet Union continued to do extensive damage long after the detonations. A subsequent high-altitude test by the Soviet Union in October of 1962 finished off the satellite. But the transistors aboard Telstar were irreparably damaged by the lingering radiation from the blast and began to quit working. During its brief life, Telstar transmitted telephone calls and faxes in addition to television signals. One day after the detonation of Starfish Prime, AT&T launched the communications satellite Telstar, which relayed the very first transatlantic television signal between the United States and France. The very first victim of an EMP attack - or its lingering effects, at least - was the United States. This operation was a “proposed series of high altitude nuclear effects tests.” The Air Force Special Weapons Center delivered a preliminary plan in November of 1961 under the entirely unassuming name of Operation FISHBOWL. And it’s wrong.Ī little more than 21 years before the movie, a more real and worrisome event was taking place. ![]() But the perpetuation of the belief that complete and total destruction will be the result of massive nuclear strikes continues to this day. ![]() military, believing the Soviets are attacking us, prepare to respond with real nukes.įortunately, global thermonuclear war is averted by the end of the movie. In 1983, a young Matthew Broderick played a young hacker named David Lightman who accidentally discovers a military supercomputer and gets it to play “Global Thermonuclear War” with him in the movie ‘ War Games.’ The computer stages a first strike involving hundreds of missiles, bombers and submarines, and the U.S.
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