Key point: EMPs aren’t powerful enough to cause a ton of damage, but the nukes that could cause them are a real problem. Few weapons are as scary as those that exist only in our minds. A few years ago ...

Back in September 1985, when I lived on Long Island, NY, I experienced Hurricane Gloria which left 750,000 of us without electrical power for as long as 11 days (I experienced only 7 days without ...

An Iranian missile exploding silently high above the American heartland would not look like war at all, but in the same instant it could drop the United States back into the 19th century and leave mil ...

Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is a major threat to the continued existence of America. An enemy could destroy our nation simply by detonating a single nuclear weapon above the atmosphere over our ...

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), which would result from a single, crude nuclear weapon detonated in space above America, represents a very real and potentially disastrous asymmetric threat, according ...

Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons might be a staple of movies and video games, but they pose a very real threat. With just about every facet of modern society reliant on electronic devices, Sandia ...

Following the unexpectedly far-reaching and damaging effects observed during the Starfish Prime nuclear experiment in 1962, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and especially high-altitude EMP (HEMP) have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washington and the press call almost everything an “existential threat” these days. But the threat from a natural or man-made ...

In the near future article, I will be discussing ways to mitigate damage from an EMP event using hardened solutions needed to keep mission-critical systems operational. I recently came across an ...

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has released findings from its three-year study of the potential impacts of high-altitude electromagnetic pulses (EMP) on the electric transmission system, ...

When Americans think about the threat from foreign missiles, it’s nearly always the catastrophic effect of a conventional nuclear blast that comes to mind. We think of the doomsday scenarios that have ...

Electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) generated during laser-plasma interactions represent a captivating frontier in modern physics. In these processes, intense laser beams interact with plasma targets, ...