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The EMP – What To Do
Starfish Prime Does anyone recall that name? What it means when we are speaking of an EMP? The first human-caused EMP occurred in 1962 when the 1.4 megaton Starfish Prime thermonuclear weapon detonated 400 km above the Pacific Ocean. It was a test of a thermonuclear weapon one hundred times bigger than what was dropped on Hiroshima, Starfish Prime resulted in an EMP which caused electrical damage nearly 900 miles away in Hawaii. 900 miles for one weapon?Considering that this was detonated in 1962, how much more damage could follow from the numbers of weaponry in today’s arsenal? As mentioned in the last post, we recently had balloons pass over…
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The EMP
We read about this thing called an EMP in lots of places; from blog posts and emails like this one to books and papers outlining this event and even into fiction. But what the heck is it, actually? Many know that the EMP was first noticed in the United States in the 1950s when electronic equipment failed because of induced currents and voltages during some nuclear tests. In 1960, the potential vulnerability of U.S. military equipment and weapons systems to EMP was officially recognized. But do you know the damage it can do? a high-yield explosion of approximately 10 megatons detonated 320 km (200 miles) above the center of the…
