[Poohbah]

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.

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.

[Dan Evans]

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.

That makes no sense. Since EMP can travel through air, air also would allow EMP to travel through the "blast zone". Do you have any empirical evidence for this or are you just making it up as you go along?

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.

In other words, it doesn't allow as much propagation outside the cage.

Show me a link that supports what you are saying. I think you are making this up.