What shots are those? Do you have a link? I ask because this EMP business is a boogieman that comes up all the time and I would like to know as much as I can.
In that link I gave you it stated that, even with a 1 Mt bomb, the EMP effects (of a ground burst) are significant only out to five miles.
I can't imagine how the presence of conductive material near ground zero could amplify the EMP.
The Dauphin and Cottage shots were biggies--they were part of the X-ray laser tests.
I can't imagine how the presence of conductive material near ground zero could amplify the EMP.
Same principle as how your bedsprings can start "talking" when a powerful transmitter is nearby.
Basically, everything reradiates. It doesn't amplify; but it DOES provide a propagation path to allow damaging levels of EMP to go beyond the blast zone.
A Faraday cage--which all this wiring SORT of creates, but not completely--is protection only up to a point. If the EMP is powerful enough to activate everything the cage is made of, it actually tends to focus the EMP inside the cage.