[R. Scott]

The next terror threat facing the United States is not a nuclear or gas attack but an electro-magnetic bomb or e-bomb

Highly over rated as to disruptive potential. The EMP bomb would have to be detonated at a relatively high altitude and one bomb would have a limited area of effect. Equipment made in the last 20 years or so is well shielded so the effect would be limited to very old equipment.

[brytlea]

You mean it wouldn't disrupt my ebay?? ;)
susie

[MrEdd]

Equipment made in the last 20 years or so is well shielded so the effect would be limited to very old equipment.

Actually many types of old equipment are immune. Automobiles without a computer (brain) for example would lose what? The radio and air conditioning. The damage comes from a sudden high current pulse that reverse biases semi conductors to a damaging degree and melts many tiny leads, thin wires, and the runs in computer chips.

Because China is working with these weapons, our military is working on a new generation of chips on diamond substrate - not going to melt short of being hit by lightning. Therefore if they want to employ EMP weapons they best do it in the next 5 - 10 years or their window of opportunity will have passed them by.