For years, American lawmakers and other government officials have been haunted by the idea that an enemy could one day launch a massive electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States that would ...
Every time we post a video about drones, radios, satellites, autonomous weapons and anything with a circuit, there are always people in the comments who say something like “Worthless, an EMP will take ...
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A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strike could cripple the U.S. electrical grid, communications, transportation, and other critical infrastructure for months, an expert warned. Historian William ...
Author William R. Forstchen's bestselling novel "One Second After" – which imagines the devastating effects of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) strike on the United States – is being adapted into a ...
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The One Part of the Grid That Can’t Be Replaced

How bad would an EMP attack really be? While skeptics dismiss it as overhyped, Cold War tests like Starfish Prime already knocked out satellites and power in Hawaii. But the real risk isn’t your phone ...
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EMP Attack or Solar Flare: What Would Happen if the American Grid Fails

It wouldn't take a warhead to end modern civilization just a well-placed pulse. From high-altitude nuclear detonations to coronal mass ejections from the Sun, the U.S. power grid faces threats that ...
The appearance of an alleged Chinese spy balloon, shot down by the American military in February, has provoked anxiety around national security and the technology China possesses to interfere in the U ...
Today, not many people may be familiar with a U.S. military operation from the early 1960's called "Starfish Prime." The details are fascinating, but here's the short version: over a remote National ...
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders had allegedly encouraged the efforts to develop EMP weapons because it wouldn’t violate Khamenei’s fatwa. Israel's Operation Rising Lion may have disrupted ...