[pierrem15]

The threat is somewhat overrated: you need H-bombs to make an effective EMP weapon. I don’t believe NK has them yet.

[Ancesthntr]

“The threat is somewhat overrated: you need H-bombs to make an effective EMP weapon. I don’t believe NK has them yet.”

---

No, actually you are WRONG. Fission weapons (A-bombs) are actually better suited to producing the gamma rays that are responsible for the EMP effects that we are debating here. Oh, and they can be relatively easily “tuned” to convert more of their energy into gamma rays (as opposed to heat and blast).

Try reading up on EMP before making statements like that. Yes, there is a lot that we don’t know about it (real world experimentation is a bit of a bitch, you know), but the amount of sheer ignorance about EMP shown on this thread is rather stunning.

[GOPJ]

Russians EMP effects in 1962

Ihttp://www.futurescience.com/emp/test184.html

:

Electromagnetic pulse is a strange and mysterious phenomenon to most of the general public. Even for most of us who have read and studied a lot about EMP over the years, something that is even more strange and mysterious is the Soviet Union’s series of nuclear tests in space, most notably the test known only as K-3 or Test 184. These EMP-producing tests were done over a large populated land mass in Kazakhstan. Even though the economic state of Kazakhstan in 1962 was quite primitive by today’s standards, it was heavily industrialized and electrified... (more at link)

[NELSON111]

>>>he threat is somewhat overrated: you need H-bombs to make an effective EMP weapon. I don’t believe NK has them yet.

Exactly. You need a large yield weapon to produce a large EMP...and he's not there. If left unchecked...he will be...but it's probably a ways off.