You fool! All they have to do is get a missile from Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Jeez man, don’t you even read?
Of course, if they have even one nuke, they can deliver it to any major port city in a sailboat. Even to Chicago, if they wish.
Irrelevant to any discussion of a transcontinental disruption of communications due to EMP. As pointed out above, that requires a high-altitude air burst.
Wasn’t the Internet originally specifically designed to weather that? At least, as I recall, the original purpose was to facilitate government and military communication the Day After, and they can’t have overlooked the possibility of EMP disruption.
Someone should alert Newt to the dangers posed by sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads.
No. No. Let’s not. Let him find out on his own.
(You did install the trapdoor, didn’t you? Throw me a bone!)
Not specifically. The Internet was designed to survive loss of large amounts of infrastructure, but what form those losses take wasn’t really a consideration. More often, the sort of damage that ends up getting routed around is from some idiot with a backhoe digging where he shouldn’t be.