What you need to know about EMP weapons

Please visit the sponsor! What you need to know about EMP weapons As we sit, possible poised on the verge of a nuclear conflict in the Northern Hemisphere, maybe it's time to look at the damaging effects of the electromagnetic pulse that follows a nuclear detonation. Apparently, if a nuke is deployed at high altitude, the EMP produced can have some rather nasty effects on our delicate electronics below. You can also forget about the inverse-square law to protect you because some components of the EMP are not "point source" but actually generated by the interaction of gamma radiation with the earth's magnetic field. That produces a very large area of EMP which creates high flux-levels at ground-level, even though the detonation may be tens or hundreds of Km away. For this reason therefore, it strikes me that we should all know a little more about EMPs and ways we could hopefully mitigate the damage they cause. Apparently there are three phases to the way a nuclear detonation pro ... Read full article.