Having been somewhat accidentally discovered in 1962 during the Starfish Prime atmospheric nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, which produced an EMP strong enough to disrupt electrical systems ...

By far the most effective and devastating EMP attack would come as a result of a nuclear bomb or missile being detonated anywhere from a few dozen miles to several hundred miles above the Earth ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

This video is a summary of the EPRI study on the impacts that a high-altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) would have on the US power grid. It’s the first in a deep-dive series of videos ...

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Sunday to cut off all trade with countries doing business with North Korea, an ...

EMP from the high-altitude detonation of a nuclear weapon over the United States could black out the nation for months or years, killing millions. Potential adversaries of the U.S. regard nuclear ...

And it should include the worst threat: high-altitude nuclear EMP attack, aspects of which have been prepared by both North Korea and Iran against the United States. An “all hazards” plan ...

It recommends that utility and other infrastructure CIOs plan to harden their IT to survive an EMP attack. The focus of the report is mostly around the risks to infrastructure of a rogue nuclear ...