By far the most effective and devastating EMP attack would come as a result of a nuclear bomb or missile being detonated anywhere from a few dozen miles to several hundred miles above the Earth ...
Having been somewhat accidentally discovered in 1962 during the Starfish Prime atmospheric nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, which produced an EMP strong enough to disrupt electrical systems ...
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Sunday to cut off all trade with countries doing business with North Korea, an ...
The technology as already been tested, in 1962, the US detonated a 1.4 megaton nuclear weapon high above the Pacific Ocean in a test known as "Starfish Prime". The EMP from the explosion was so ...
This video is a summary of the EPRI study on the impacts that a high-altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) would have on the US power grid. It’s the first in a deep-dive series of videos about ...
Narrator: Imagine if we detonated a nuclear bomb in space ... created a burst of energy called an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that expanded for over 1,000 kilometers. EMPs can cause a power ...
During the Cold War, both America and the Soviet Union explored the idea of using nuclear explosions to create a silent electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to cripple an enemy. Details of the US project ...