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>within 50 miles of Vegas
Isn't the best EMP supposed to happen if you set off a nuke in the upper atmosphere or low orbit? Far as I understand, the lower atmosphere absorbs the radiation burst too heavily, and it's just turned into extreme localized heating (which generates a blast wave because of thermodynamics and gas laws).
Above most of the atmosphere, heat can't really work like that, but the burst of rays can generate an insane transient current by energizing particles in a large radius. These particles interacting with the magnetic field then generates a continent-scale burst of electromagnetic waves.
Kind of like those solar events that occasionally knock out a substation or comm link, or two, but potentially worse.

>in the 50s and 60s
Also, isn't the usual argument that it would fry modern electronics, which can indeed be fucked by a few extra volts in the wrong spot?
Though they're getting so small that many devices might be unable to function as an antenna for the emitted waves. And they do have some safeguards against volts in the wrong spot, if only to protect them from interference or static electricity.
Larger pieces of electric infrastructure could still be quite fucked, though.

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