[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

very cool

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[conservativemusician]

Very cool but no so ultra secret.

[Momaw Nadon]

Message to Saddam: You cannot escape the ZOT!

[demlosers]

The Gulf War marked the debut of precision-guided munitions

Actually, the Vietnam War marked PGM debut.

[DB]

"HPMs can unleash in a flash as much electrical power-2 billion watts or more-as the Hoover Dam generates in 24 hours."

Dumb statement. Energy (power over time) and just "power" are two different things. The amount of energy released by a HPM is miniscule compared to what Hoover dam generates in 24 hours. 2 billion watts for a microsecond is only 2000 watt-seconds (joules). Hoover Dam is capable of generating 2,000 Megawatts for long periods of time. 2,000 Megawatts is 2 billion watts… If the HPM pulse is around one microsecond (it could well be shorter) Hoover Dam generates this amount of energy in about a microsecond. So the writer of this article is only off about 86 billion to one (24 hours vs. 1 microsecond)…

[krb]

World War II gave us the horror of nuclear weapons

No, World War II gave us the beauty of nuclear weapons. It wasn't until other people got them too that they became horrible :-)

[Enterprise]

Hey Ron Silver, those are "our" missiles.

[per loin]

HPMs can unleash in a flash as much electrical power-2 billion watts or more-as the Hoover Dam generates in 24 hours.

Is it too much to ask that Time magazine be as scientifically informed as a high school physics student? The above is useless garble. Power and Energy are related but not identical concepts.

[latrans]

Thanks for this report. I can't wait to see it work.

[xrp]

Didn't Danny Ocean already set one of these off in Las Vegas when he was robbing those casinos?

[Democrats hate too much]

What if somehow a terrorist gets a hold of this (say it was developed in some North Korea like country), and goes into New York city with it?

This kind of a thing may be easier to make and sneak in then say a suit case nuke.

[S.O.S121.500]

bttt

[Centurion2000]

As Wyatt Earp said in Tombstone.

You called down the thunder, well now you GOT IT.