All Comments on 'Atomic Sex Pt. 01'

My technical mind just won't let go of the fact that the light was on when the bombs dropped, the EMP from the first bomb would have wiped the local infrastructure for a loop - and if the generator kicked in automatically (which seemed to be the case), it too would have been knocked out by the successive 4 bombs - leaving them in the dark.

I will try to suspend that in my mind and continue reading the tale for what it is.

4/5

Looking forwards to further chapters

Great start, enjoying it so far. I'm interested to see how the story develops.

There are several ways the electronics within the shelter would survive:

1. An EMP blast is most effective at altitude (I believe the optimal is about 400km up, depending on yield) which would destroy electrical stuff within a relatively small radius and cause damage over a huge area due to utilising the earths magnetic field. A ground blast has a much more limited effect.

2. The generator would have been isolated from any connections outside the shelter so an electron surge through ground cables would have no effect.

3. The dude who built the shelter was clued up (the lead door, all the prep stuff) and this is why I think everything electrical survived. I reckon he would have built the shelter to act as a Faraday Cage. A faraday cage allows electricity to flow around a metallic exo-structure and not through it, everything within the cage is protected from a surge as long as it does not act as an earth between the exoskeleton and the ground (eg someone in a car that is struck by lightning or touching a stray powerline). So the pulse would travel around the shelter and not through anything in it

By all means someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Cheers, Kerry

Nice, better than most end of earth stories. Not sure why, after 4 days they are using formal names talking to each other, except for the youngest.

I hope this series gets going. unfortunately, it has been almost 2.5 years, so not holding my breath.