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 ...

It’s bad enough that North Korea, an implacable enemy of the United States, has the nuclear bomb. To make matters worse, it ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Narrator: Imagine if we detonated a nuclear bomb in space ... giant fireball and created a burst of energy called an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that expanded for over 1,000 kilometers.

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 ...

The reclusive state's latest nuclear test has added another one: EMP ― a short name for electro-magnetic pulse. EMP is an intensive wave of electrical energy generated when a nuclear weapon is ...