On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 03:20:11 PDT, NM Research <nm_research@yahoo.com> said: > Ofcourse I know about EMP. But what I mean is this, all international credit > cards, bank transfers, insurance, commerce deals etc. are supported, initiated, > terminated or developed in a city in USA. Even if you want to make a bank > transfer from one street to another in Kenya, you go through the USA/ that city. > Do you get the picture?? Given that there isn't any *single* city that has *all* the banks - offhand, I can think of Boston, NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco as having large financial districts, it would take multiple hits. Presumably, most of the larger banks have some sort of off-site disaster recovery plans. I posit that if enough nukes go off to take out enough banks to matter, the question of whether the net is moving bits will be of secondary importance. I know I'm going to be busy getting my children to someplace the fallout isn't. And at that point, an OC12 isn't going to matter as much as a box of rifle ammunition.
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