CONVENTIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE WARHEADS

https://web.archive.org/web/20060110065425/http://www.deepspace4.com/pages/main/pagemain.htm

This a part od my article now in web archive linked above from 2000 under Science.

ABSTRACT

The efficient attack against modern industrial opponent will require the use of electromagnetic pulse weapons capable of disrupting electronic monitoring, communications, control and information systems in limited area, leaving other structured intact and without radioactive contamination.

The Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) effect was first observed in 1962 when a 1.4 megaton nuclear weapon was detonated in Test Shot Starfish. The Starfish shot was conducted 400 kilometers high above the mid-Pacific and the electromagnetic pulse from it destroyed satellite equipment and blocked high frequency radio communications across the Pacific for 30 minutes.

The effect itself is characterized by the production of a very short and intense shock wave, producing a powerful electromagnetic field whose intensity rapidly decreases with the distance from the pulse source. This field can be made sufficiently strong to produce short-lived transient voltages of thousands of Volts in exposed electrical wires, or conductive tracks on printed circuit boards, therefore causing irreversible damage to a wide range of electrical and electronic devices, particularly telecommunications equipment, computers, radio and/ or radar receivers.

Comical part of that was when I published this article on my site is that I received email from "emp devices" museum in USA asking few questions.
That meant that they tought that I am an idiot, and that I was
right.

Now writing this coment is hard work because Google all time steps in mixing ldtters and words.