“EMP has the potential to impact anything with sensitive circuits unless it is shielded by a faraday cage or its electronics are built to be resistant.”
No, it doesn’t. That is the biggest line of bullsh*t the urban legend types pass around about EMP. If that were the case then maybe you can explain just how we got all those videos and other electronic measurements long before we even knew EMP accompanied nuclear devices. I thought EMP was supposed to wipe out all things electric and electronic.
ONE of the problems with EMP, involves the way IC chips are made: microscopically thin gold wires connect the actual silicon chip to the pinouts on the IC packaging. Certain types of EMP run sufficient current through those wires to melt them. The chip itself isn’t hurt, but since it’s not connected to the case anymore, and it’s molded and epoxied shut, you can’t break the chip back open without cracking the silicon slab and TRULY destroying the chip. . .