Neither is physics. The whole article is fake. If you carefully look for the "EMP Task Force on Homeland Security", you'll fine that it is nothing but a fake site made to look like a part of the US Department of Homeland Security, and has a "donate" button that just gives money directly to Dr. Peter Pry.
Don't fall for this. If they aren't in on it, then American Thinker got hoodwinked.
Don't fall for this. If they aren't in on it, then American Thinker got hoodwinked.
I presume that your power went out for awhile. Sarcasm aside, you're egregiously-wrong and echoing spasms of propaganda. There is limited knowledge on the study of the propagation of EMP - mostly from the unintended effects of the Starfish Prime nuclear test in 1962, but it's good physics nonetheless and, certainly, a topic for national security...just as the EMP Task Force on Homeland Security was intended to address (albeit poorly; thanks Congress).
Here's some history on the Congressional EMP Caucus and Trennt Franks' SHIELD Act (aka Secure High-voltage Infrastructure for Electricity from Lethal Damage, H.R. 668) with everything you need to come up to speed on your own.
Here's the authorization absent any funding for the Task Force on National and Homeland Security.
As an aside, Brannon Howse hosts a very interesting discussion on the topic here.
As a pathetic footnote to the discussion, it should be noted that the SHIELD Act never went anywhere and Pry still has to rely upon donations.
I suggest ponying up.