Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons might be a staple of movies and video games, but they pose a very real threat. With just about every facet of modern society reliant on electronic devices, Sandia ...

ATLANTA — Imagine your car won’t start, no water comes out of your faucet, and you can’t use your cell phone. It’s a very real threat. That is exactly what an electromagnetic pulse weapon can do. An ...

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack poses a direct threat to the U.S. electric grid—a threat that is poorly understood and lacks the leadership to address it. An EMP—a high-intensity burst of energy ...

Key point: EMPs aren’t powerful enough to cause a ton of damage, but the nukes that could cause them are a real problem. Few weapons are as scary as those that exist only in our minds. A few years ago ...

The peak electric field from Starfish prime (1.4 megaton blast) on Honolulu would have been 5.6 kV/m energy density 0.01j/m**2 [This is 10% of the worst case field, so there is high variability in the ...

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the U.S. would have devastating effects. On August 15, 2003, a major blackout occurred throughout the northeastern U.S. and Canada, offering a glimpse of what ...

Key point: A nuclear war is scarier and besides it isn’t so easy to generate a really large EMP burst. Few weapons are as scary as those that exist only in our minds. A few years ago when the ...

China’s military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made ...