Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, and served as Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, Chief of Staff of the Congressional EMP Commission, and on the staffs of the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA. He is he author of a number of books and reports, many dealing with the EMP (electromagnetic pulse) threat to the West from the high-altitude explosion of nuclear weapons. That being so, in the following material, Pry debunks some myths about nuclear weapons that the mainly Left-wing anti-nuclear movement have been pushing since the 1960s. It is not enough to make one into a Dr Strangelove, but does give balance.
In summary, nuclear bombs do not, with ground detonation, result in the sort of apocalyptic scenario depicted by the Left and in classic anti-war movies, such as On the Beach (1958). The real threat comes from EMP use against vulnerable electric infrastructure of the grid, which is what should be focused upon, once the enemies of the West have such EMP attacks as a key part of their coming war with the US and the West.