New Atlas

"Friendly" EMP generator to help protect electronics against electromagnetic attack

Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons might be a staple of movies and video games, but they pose a very real threat. With just about every facet of modern society reliant on electronic devices, Sandia ...
Yahoo

Could U.S. Be Wiped Out by North Korean EMP Attack?

Millions of lives could be lost through mass starvation, disease and societal collapse following a North Korean electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, according to the author of a congressional report.
The National Interest

The World Won’t End: The Danger of an EMP Attack Is More Fantasy Than Fact

Key point: A nuclear war is scarier and besides it isn’t so easy to generate a really large EMP burst. Few weapons are as scary as those that exist only in our minds. A few years ago when the ...
The Heritage Foundation

The White House Was Right to Issue the Executive Order on the EMP Threat

The White House has issued an executive order to address the threat of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), whether caused by a solar flare or an enemy attack. A nuclear bomb detonated high above the U.S.
Homeland Security Today

PERSPECTIVE: Is North Korea’s Nuclear Test Moratorium a Harbinger of Growing EMP Threat?

Author’s Note: This article is not to advocate North Korea conducting an atmosphere nuclear test, but simply to illustrate the possible unintended consequences of an alternative attack that actually ...
Homeland Security Today

The Threat of Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse to Critical Infrastructure

Many consider an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States, from an atmospheric nuclear warhead detonation, to be a black swan event – a high-impact, unpredictable event. But we have ...
The National Interest

The Threat of EMP Attack is Very Real

As we commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, which heralded America’s formal entry into the Second World War, we must remember that ...
Forbes

Electromagnetic Pulses Are A Perfect Sneak Attack. Pentagon Developing Ways To Detect One.

A tank commander on the front line radios in a report during an international crisis…and there is no response. Has a stealthy electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack destroyed the radio electronics in the ...
E&E

America’s frail defense against a nuclear-tipped threat

The first major U.S. military attempt to explore electrical effects in the upper atmosphere was a brutal, secretive and unsettling affair. It came in 1962, with a hydrogen bomb test called Starfish ...
POWER Magazine

Trump Acts on Critical Infrastructure Resiliency Against EMP Threats

President Trump has signed an executive order (EO) to boost coordination for and national resilience against electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threats—both from nuclear warfare and natural events like solar ...
T&D

EPRI Identifies Impacts, Solutions for EMP Effects on Grid

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has released findings from its three-year study of the potential impacts of high-altitude electromagnetic pulses (EMP) on the electric transmission system, ...