I appreciate your enthusiasm regarding EMP and I hope you can enlighten us more if you pursue this subject seriously rather than throwing insults, mud slinging, non technical crap et.al.. Now to restore decorum in the debate you need to put forward your arguments you feel compelling about EMP but before that these are the following facts about EMP and its weaponisation efforts:
An Electromagnetic Pulse is a broad term that can cover both natural and man-made events that would cause a burst of electromagnetic energy, but for the purposes of this article, we will be looking at the most dangerous types of EMPs,
nuclear electromagnetic pulses (NEMP) and high altitude nuclear EMPs (HEMP).
A nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack is a burst of Electromagnetic radiation that occurs following the detonation of a nuclear weapon. While this type of attack would cause serious trouble for any country targeted by this kind of weaponry, in the classical sense of an EMP attack we are not talking about the stereotypical imagery of a mushroom cloud followed by a wave of destruction. No, an EMP attack doesn’t target a landmass but instead targets the air over a country.
http://offgridsurvival.com/emppreparedness/
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he real danger comes from a nuclear weapon known as a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) device. Depending on the location of the detonation, and how powerful the device is, the effects of a HEMP would cause catastrophic damage to a country’s power grid and communications infrastructure.
So here is the argument in support of "
the wild ass idea" which I was talking about. Believe it or not Nuclear EMPs are the most powerful EMPs. Apart from that, if you talk about other EMPs like high power microwave or burst X-rays, they need a huge set-up to generate a small pulse to be effective. Weaponisation is a Big issue that's why the argument of using a small nuclear device which can cause more damage as compared to Marx generator based DEWs (I hope you know some basic about Beam generator and Linear Accelerators) gained much credence in Pulse & Accelerator Technology. However it is not completely useless as this setup KALI is used to test device protection devices used against EMPs... Still a long way to go till we get a matured EMP based DEWs.