Just for fun, the Mythbusters and a Van de Graaff generator.

"Scorched Earth is best known as a military policy involving deliberate and usually widespread destruction of property and resources so that an invading enemy cannot use them. Resources can be the town economic structure itself and the housing of the people.






It is also viewed as a victory or supremacy at all costs.

Basically, "Scorched Earth" is a definition of imposed values regardless of the number of innocent victims.