- " ... EMP is just not effective."
Check out ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP) AND THE POWER GRID :
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"...In July of 1962, as a part of its nuclear testing program, the U.S. military detonated a nuclear device 900 miles (1445 km) from Hawaii at an altitude of 250 miles (400 km) over the Pacific Ocean.
The blast, dubbed Starfish Prime, besides its bright visibility in Honolulu, knocked out streetlights, damaged a telephone company’s microwave link, set off numerous burglar alarms, and reportedly disabled automobiles on the islands (Figure 1).
Despite the long distance from the test site, the damage in Hawaii was directly attributable to the EMP that was generated during the nuclear explosion [4, 5].
Figure 1. Starfish Prime as seen from Honolulu, July 9, 1962 [6]
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[4]. Defense Science Board Task Force, “Nuclear Weapon Effects Test, Evaluation and Simulation,” page 15, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Washington, D.C. (2005), http:// www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/dsb/nwe ects.pdf.
[5]. Bainbridge, K.T., Trinity (Report LA-6300-H), Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, May 1976, http://www.fas.org/sgp/ othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00317133.pdf.
[6]. U.S. Department of Energy, “United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 through September 1992,” December 1994, http:// www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/nuclear/usnuctests.htm.
