EMPs Don’t Work Like That
January 23, 2021 by Special Guest
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by Kevin Wilson
The Electromagnetic Pulse, or EMP, has something of a mythical status in science fiction as the all-powerful killer of anything and everything electronic. Every so often, some politician or news agency reads a book or watches a show where the bad guys detonate an EMP over America, and the resulting blackout results in the apocalypse.
Like most myths, however, a grain of truth has been buried under heaping mounds of horse crap. Given the tensions with North Korea, and that whole “oops did I just accidentally send out a false incoming missile warning to the entire state of Hawaii†incident, I figure it’s a good idea to take a look at EMPs to understand what, exactly, would happen if the Hermit Kingdom somehow manages to set one off over the US.
To understand exactly what an EMP does, we first have to dive into what it is. An EMP is, simply put, a burst of electromagnetic energy. They can be generated by a wide variety of sources, both manmade and natural. The most common form that we’d recognize is lightning, but even that spark that jumps from your fingertip to a doorknob after walking across a carpeted floor in socks is technically a form of EMP.
https://havokjournal.com/national-security/emps-dont-work-like/
