But there is another reason American military and national security officials are so worried: in at least two earlier ballistic missile launches, the Iranians launched in ways that “appear they were designed to optimize an EMP burst,” according to a Pentagon source with detailed knowledge of the Iranian’s efforts and of space technology.
I wonder if Iran read this report and decided that they would get more bang for their buck by setting off the big one in low orbit as opposed to nuking some city. If the hype is in any way correct, the vaporizing of one city would be easier for the US to recover from then one successful EMP attack.