From The Danger Room:
It’ll fry pace makers, destroy iPhones, and turn laptops into useless paperweights. It’s the scariest thing most people outside the Washington Beltway have never heard of: electromagnetic pulse weapons.
And you can learn all about it starting today at the EMPACT conference in Niagara Falls, New York.
Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, is a burst of electromagnetic radiation that fries electronics, from satellites to toaster ovens. The effects of a nuclear EMP were first observed after the 1962 Starfish Prime nuclear test, which knocked out satellites and electronics. EMP weapons are specifically designed to maximize this electronics-killing effect, which can be done by detonating a high-altitude nuclear explosion.Read more ....
My Comment: I looked at the video .... and I am not impressed. The U.S. already has a large number of threats facing it .... this one will be at the bottom of the list.