Yes, if you go deep enough that the emp and the radiation level diminishes below a significant threat level. As to what particular depth that will occur, well, that's what engineers and scientists get paid to figure out.

While the threat of a terroristic use of a nuclear weapon is very real, I do not believe anything short of all-out nuclear war (and MAD) would motivate any party to employ a high altitude nuclear detonation (generally required for EMP).

There's just too much bang for the buck in targeting people and buildings and such to worry about electronics.

If one is unfortunate enough to be affected by a terrorist act, there are more likely threats to your IPOD, e.g., blast, metling due to fire, being crushed or, most likely of all, being dropped as you bug out to the hills with your PSK to take on TEOTWAWKI to the strains of that Dallas-area band, Bloodrock. <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Actually, the greatest threat to the IPOD devices will likely come from viruses, but that is altogether a different paranoia. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

The counter point was that if you are close enough to the blast for the magneteic field to be high enough to serious effect you the other aspects of the detonation are going o get yiou first.

And yes I know how a nuclear blast generates the magnetic field. I didn't go into how because I was discussing the effects of EMP and didn't want to cause too much confusion. Besides it was getting long as it was.

Gravity and really heavy people are probably just as dangerous for iPods. I suspect that the washer-drier combo might become the natural predator of the Nano though. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Well then, your counterpoint complements my point rather nicely. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Yeah, I was kinda hoping to avoid all the long haired stuff as well. Like I said before, it is all just trivia that won't have much value to anyone if such an incident actually occurred.

As concerns IPODS, there are more immediate threats out there to worry about. Really though, nothing lasts forever.