If I remember the .v1 history correctly I don’t think there was ever a mention of either side using high altitude nuclear airburst’s for large scale EMP effects.
If that is indeed the case, then the only EMP effects should be from the nukes that were airburst directly over there targets (a few thousand feet high.) this would cause the EMP effects to be quite localized I believe.
Which could mean large rural areas with functioning electronics – still worthless of course without power or fuel.
I know a guy who flew in B-52’s in the ‘80’s and ‘90’s, and he did tell me once on this subject that most NATO aircraft were EMP hardened to some degree…but he said that you would be surprised to find that very few base facilities (including spare parts rooms/warehouse’s) had any EMP shielding at all. Some of the comm. was protected, but the power grid was not…or even vital electronics in the airbase towers and CIC’s.
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