This video is a summary of the EPRI study on the impacts that a high-altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) would have ...

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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 ...

Although it would unlikely cause the immediate loss of life associated with a conventional nuclear attack, a high-altitude EMP attack would severely disable the nation for many months while IT and ...

Narrator: Imagine if we detonated a nuclear bomb ... away that the high-energy radiation wouldn't reach you. But don't get too comfortable. Remember Starfish Prime's EMP? This time, the EMP ...

Earth's magnetic field then shuttles many of these high-speed electrons ... a 2008 report by the EMP Commission suggests that the right nuclear device detonated at the right altitude could bathe ...

In 2008, a US commission investigating the threat concluded that "the electromagnetic pulse generated by a high-altitude nuclear explosion is one of a small number of threats that can hold our ...