Heading Toward An EMP Catastrophe

Family Security Matters ^ | July 23, 2015 | AMBASSADOR R. JAMES WOOLSEY, DR. PETER VINCENT PRY

[RFEngineer]

“You guys really need to learn that when you’ve been reduced to insults you have admitted you’re wrong.”

There is a second possibility.....

[RFEngineer]

“But they are also not connected to many wires much less any of any real length to develop a voltage from an EMP.”

This is a fair point. Standalone electronics, like a cellphone, you have a low probability of damage due to small dimensions. Connect to anything, you are subject to very high fast rise time energy that can and in many instances will destroy a semiconductor junction

[TXnMA]

I spent my entire (post-military) career in semiconductors, with failure analysis being one of my top analytical tools -- and have seen literally thousands of failures like this:

...of defunct ICs -- killed by the mere contact of an ungrounded human with the container they were transported in...

Intrinsic vulnerability due to tight spacing -- no "antenna" required...