July 5th, 2006 @ 12:43 am
wikipedia-ing
Sometimes I find some random link to wikipedia, and then can spend hours browsing from article to article. EMPs are as good as a place as any to start, so here ya go.
Electromagnetic pulse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The worst of the pulse lasts for only a second, but any unprotected electrical equipment — and anything connected to electrical cables, which act as giant lightning rods or antennas, will be affected by the pulse. Older, vacuum tube (valve) based equipment is much less vulnerable to EMP; Soviet cold war era military aircrafts often had avionics based on vacuum tubes. There are a number of websites that explore methods for protecting equipment in the home or business from the effects of an EMP attack.
