"This is a very real threat," he said. "EMP is generated when a small nuclear weapon, 40 to 60 kilotons or about three times the size of a Hiroshima bomb, is detonated 200 miles out in space above ...

A well-placed electromagnetic pulse in a major city or near a military base could ground aircraft, disable communications, ...

Potential adversaries of the U.S. regard nuclear EMP attack as the ultimate cyber weapon. Potential adversaries of the U.S. regard nuclear EMP attack as the ultimate cyber weapon. North Korea’s ...

A “Golden Dome” missile defense shield designed to detect, track and intercept incoming ballistic weapons would offer the ...

A major EMP attack would cause failures of most things that run on electricity or microchips. The only exceptions would be older mechanical, manual, non-digital devices. Here’s a few of the ...

In the Wall Street Journal, I recently observed that North Korea could detonate nuclear weapons above the atmosphere to produce an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and shut down the electric power grid ...

The article elaborated on the destructive force of a hydrogen bomb, which the North claimed to have tested on Sunday. In the article titled "Power of nuclear weapon's EMP," Prof. Kim Sung-won of ...