Science for Future World Leaders. EMP Bomb

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Not if, but when. Anyone who spends much time thinking about nuclear terrorism can whip up countless diabolical scenarios: entire cities vaporized and millions of people eliminated without a trace. Now imagine something equally chilling. Picture an instantaneous deathblow to the vital engines that power our society - delivered by a weapon specifically designed not to kill humans, but to kill electronics. It's called a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse, or HEMP. This is the story of what could happen when an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, surges to earth and cripples every aspect of infrastructure by destroying our most depended upon, and therefore most vulnerable, aspect of modern society - the electrical grid. While predicting the odds of a nuclear HEMP attack from terrorist groups is less certain, most experts agree that interference from another EMP source, the sun, is imminent.