About the recent nuke in Syria

A digital camera will definitely survive filming a nuclear blast. The "EMP destroys everything" line is nothing but a myth

""The movie "the day after" even shows 1970's cars grinding to a halt, and they had no computers or advanced circuits in them. This proves the entire plot was a lie because the cars of the 70's were identical to the cars of the 50's, and in the 1950's people would drive out to Nevada and watch the nuclear tests for entertainment. If EMP was so horrible, none would have been able to drive home afterward." It is my opinion that the fireball from the recent explosion in Syria was far too big and persisted too long to be from any conventional source, no matter how it was set off. Since Israel is a proven nuclear rogue, I have no doubt they have nuked Syria multiple times already. And nukes are not the end of the world.
My guess is small nuke, and any stories about it not being a nuke because the EMP would have destroyed the camera are B.S., I have done all the calculations for nuclear EMP against electronic devices, and when it comes to things the size of the camera, FORGET IT, EMP will not do anything at all. The camera has too small of a cross section to couple even partially with frequencies below 500 mhz.
Nuclear EMP happens between 1 and 20 Mhz depending on the bomb, and to couple effectively with something as small as the circuits in a camera, the frequency of the EMP would have to be up in the 1 Ghz range. EMP is nothing but a radio frequency pulse and if your device does not make a suitable antenna, it won't pick up the EMP, it will just shrug it off. I know I am going to get backlash for saying this, but there is a lot of proof that this is true out there already. When North Korea tested it's nukes, it was completely in the digital age. Same is true with China, India, Pakistan and to some degree even France. None of those nukes destroyed anything digital or transistorized. Though it is true that an ionospheric detonation would wreak havoc with satellites and the power grid, ground bursts do virtually nothing at all to electronics and the proof of this is overwhelming. The nuclear EMP myth is nothing but a psy op.
The terror flick "The Day After" has as a main feature ALL the cars dying due to their electrical systems getting blown out and sitting dead on the highway. A laughable myth with so much proof against it it's a wonder that movie was able to make the EMP myth take hold. Cars will shrug off nuclear EMP entirely. When EMP was an issue it was only a small issue and we were using old antiquated stuff based on large circuits with a large cross section. Miniaturization made the devices too small to couple with such a low frequency and on top of that, ALL digital circuits nowadays have protection diodes across all pins of all the chips, so there is no way to over voltage them absent hooking them up to a large power supply with too high a voltage and letting them fry over time, or subjecting them to extremely intense GHZ frequencies similar to putting them in a microwave oven. Since EMP takes place in a few microseconds, there would not be enough time to fry the protection diodes even if a device did pick up the EMP. These diodes, which are there to protect the chips from static discharge, are manufactured into all static sensitive devices, the same devices that could be damaged by EMP. 20 years ago it might have been possible to blow out unprotected Cmos circuits but nowadays EVERYTHING ships with extremely hardened circuits to prevent static damage, and the protection diodes will stop a voltage spike from EMP the same way they stop static. This leaves unsaid the fact that small devices can't pick up nuclear EMP anyway.

The terror flick "the day after" came out of Hollywood, and is a load of B.S. The math does not support what happened in the movie, and neither does history. Remember, out of all the Nevada nuclear tests in America, not a single car ignition system was blown up, NOT A THING AT ALL except an old mechanical rotary multiplexer at a phone company with long lines the signal could couple with and that type of phone switch had to be rebuilt monthly as a matter of course anyway.

The day after even shows 1970's cars grinding to a halt, and they had no computers or advanced circuits in them. This proves the entire plot was a lie because the cars of the 70's were identical to the cars of the 50's, and in the 1950's people would drive out to Nevada and watch the nuclear tests for entertainment. If EMP was so horrible, none would have been able to drive home afterward. The ignition coils and distributors were IDENTICAL to what "the day after" portrayed. I have friends who drove out the the Nevada tests, and they said the tests were all announced and many many people would drive out into the desert to watch. No one's cars were wrecked absent Bubba drinking too much alcohol. The nuclear EMP scare is being kept in place so that at the right time, on cue, all the computers which have Intel processors can have the CoreVpro technology tell the CPU to self destruct when given the command from the cell phone system, and all the cars which have an always on cell connection right from the control computer can be deactivated and rendered dead via the same cell system. There is such ignorance about EMP nowadays that all they have to do is say a nuke blew everything up, and it's bye bye computers, bye bye cars just with a command sent from the cell phone system. THAT would certainly stop a rebellion, would it not?
I am certain we are going to now be treated to a large number of armageddon style blasts because Israel has no conscience and there are tons of Iphones out there. Don't let anyone fool you and make you believe a nuclear blast can't be captured by a digital camera without wrecking it and when one survives to tell the story, remember that it is possible. Don't believe a nuclear blast cannot be witnessed by people without permanently blinding them, because people drove out to Nevada to watch the detonations for entertainment back in the 50's. If you don't understand or believe why nuclear EMP can't kill a laptop or a camera if you are far enough away to survive the blast yourself, learn a little math and focus your efforts on radio propagation and antenna systems. Don't allow the nuclear fear mongering "experts" to raise your expectations of what a nuke can do to otherworldly levels, yes, they are bad but when reality is the issue a little math can go a long way.           http://jimstonefreelance.com/index.html