U.S. EMP tests surface again
On Aug. 30, 1961, the Soviet Union announced that it would end a three-year moratorium on high-altitude nuclear testing. The U.S. response was a well-documented series of five tests in 1962 called Operation Fishbowl. One of those tests, the Starfish Prime project, launched on July 9 and successfully detonated at an altitude of about 250 miles, producing a yield equivalent to approximately 1.4 megatons of TNT.
The explosion resulted in an EMP much larger than anticipated, illuminating a large area of the Pacific Ocean, causing electrical damage in Hawaii some 900 miles away from the detonation point, trapping high-energy electrons to form radiation belts around the earth, disabling one-third of satellites in low earth orbit and causing other satellites to fail over time.
Much less documented were the effects of six high-altitude nuclear tests conducted by the U.S. in 1958. The official explanation for the lack of data released from those tests, as published in the U.S. Government Project Officer’s Interim Report on the Starfish Prime project, is that the tests were poorly instrumented and hastily executed, and that the models of the bursts were too uncertain to produce reliable results.
Check out this article on this subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
Do you think there is more to this story than meets the eye? If the government has more information on the EMP effects of the 1958 tests, why has it not been made available as the results from the 1962 tests have been? Chime in with your opinion in the comments.
Could a short range EMP ,about 500 feet, be possible to build along the southern border to prevent a drone invasion that I believe is coming, perhaps with explosives.
I read why they called it “Operation Fishbowl” and the name fits what they discovered. We are living in a closed system just like a fishbowl. Somewhere between 250 and 300 miles up the government discovered a dome, or as the Bible calls it the Firmament, over the Earth. The atomic “tests’ had nothing to do with EMP’s but were attempts to blow a hole in this mysterious dome. They failed to make a dent. This was hushed up as top secret for whatever reason.
Best case scenario: God prevents ultimate military action as He did during the “Cold War.” We humans are the Body of Christ. We are the child of God. When will everybody “get it,” I don’t know.
Worst case scenario: Violent, childish-minded person will set in motion something similar to what is described in the article above.
Cliche: Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
Beltone Magoo remembers correctly. High Altitude nuclear detonation that produces EMP also disrupts ionization layers that reflect shortwave radio signals. after about day or 2 the sun radiation restores these energy layers. This is not new or concealed, just forgotten. I saw lots of articles about installing EMP protection in broadcast engineering trade magazines of early 1970s. I also saw, while working for RCA, a project in Reagans mid 1980s, Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) that was to maintain military radio communications during ionosphere disruptions. Try google searching for older military training manuals on EMP & Lightning protection, Ben Franklin Lightning protection systems are simply crude faraday cages. Cheapest EMP protection stash box for your electronics is a Greenlee type metal job box that electricians use on construction sites to prevent tool theft. You can also add finger-stock along the lid edges to improve the conductivity to the lid for more effective shielding.
With a little research, it is clear that an EMP weapon is the preferred scenario for almost every major country, including Russia and China. In fact, Russia has worked diligently to perfect this weapon for many years, more than any other, except perhaps Israel. Even more worrisome is the fact that an EMP weapon would be easy to pull off for an organized
terrorist group. All they need is a suitcase sized bomb and a weather balloon to reach the right altitude and a large portion of the US will be back to the 1800’S.
Russia could detonate one or two nuclear bombs at higher altitudes and do the same thing to the entire
United States. Their troops would be able to walk in and take over, with our entire infrastructure completely intact.
Whenever I research methods to shield from an EMP
event, I get conflicting and incomplete information. If you are satisfied with a microwave or a trash can, you’re in good shape. But a Faraday enclosure that is any larger and you are in for some real frustration.
we need to pool resources to avoid catastrophe…with no party,class,$,education, etc. lines
I was interested until I saw the link to wikipedia.
Read Last Light BY TERRI BLACKSTOCK iT is fiction but deals with EMP and what had to be done once it affected the country. very informative.
I was in the Army in Alaska all of 1958 ans 6 months of 59 total 18 months. Whittier was the Port. Do anyone reading this have a knowledge of ANY event at that time?
I did 1 search on duckduckgo (the seach engine y’all should use btw) for “EMP Envioronmental Damage. Here’s the result > > > http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/08/before-the-lights-go-out-a-survey-of-emp-preparedness-reveals-significant-shortfalls.
Quite informative if one bothers to read it. As far as the ’58 test cited here; I doubt the scientists involved ever anticipated an EMP, much less were prepared to measure and characterize it. Those days are long gone and any data from then would not be valid in regards to the present state of infrastructure which now is based on solid state devices. These devices are basically synthetic crystals, and other active and passive devices which in general are liable to fail if exposed to EMP energies, or even large electro-static transient energy spikes unless proper shielding is provided. A “Faraday box” could protect some devices, a micrwave oven is an example which could save your cell phone or laptop, perhaps. Altough this would be little help if a large EMP disables the power grid. That event would take away the internet, communcations, banking, etc. infrastucture, and worst case could put us all back to 17th century technology. Even a few days damage would be unthinkable chaos. So it seems to me a lot more education, thought and action must be taken to prevent/prepare for an EMP (which a large solar flare could cause).
EMP hardened aircraft and ships are based on these nuclear tests. Naval Station Patuxent River, MD had a building/hangar that emitted electrical pulses to test ship and aircraft wiring. Maybe this might provide info you’re looking for. One has to develop the technology to be able to defend against it as in chemical’biological/nuclear warfare. Nuclear energy has been powering aircraft carriers and other major combatant ships for decades as well as providing electricity to most of France, parts of the US, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, USSR, and many other countries. Mostly very safe. Solar power is not yet cost effective despite heavy funding from Jimmy Carter Administration on. Wind power is a joke. Denmark’s extensive studies show that nuc or fossil fuel plants have to be continuously on-line with 95% capacity to back-up wind power. If you can accept unreliable winds to determine when you get power then maybe it is acceptable to you.
While man invents new technology that can make life easier, man’s nature made up of good and evil can’t ensure how it will be used. Nuclear weapons have rarely been used and is responsible for long decades of peace between major powers. Even the brief use in World War 2 it is believed to have saved many times more lives than it affected. Chemical and biological weapons have been used and if a nation didn’t develop the technology, then they would have been at the mercy of one that did or the terrorist that have repeatedly.
Look at the results of military development of weapons. The results have been used for civilian use to save lives, raise living standards, control outbreaks. etc. To ban certain technology can make one victimized by another that didn’t.
My background – NSO CVN-65, Air Test & Eval VX-1
I am in total agreement. Solar and wind are “nice” but not a viable source.
One more thing. If you completely decapitate governments, other heads will rise. That is human nature. What we need is a benevolent monarch who will never die, over all the earth.
We do and we refer to that entity as God.
God is that entity and will not longsuffer the evil in this world indefinitely. He (Jesus) will return and He will destroy the works of darkness in cataclysmic vengeance. It’s coming.
Amen!
He’s on his way. We better get ready.
why would a Supreme Being, with an eternal life and an unlimited number of planets to watch over, want to ‘come back’ to this armpit of a planet to RULE. that is not God’s way – like Jesus said ‘come I have prepared a place for you – it isn;t the earth.
Have you heard the Lord’s prayer. “Thy kingdom come, they will be done on Earth as it is in heaven.”
A one world government- whose to say who that leader would be! Millions thought Hitler, Stalin, & Mao, ruthless dictators were benevolent do golfers on their behalf! People today are naive and don’t know history! The bible says “the heart of man is deceitfully wicked who can know it”! We individually are all selfish and God unequivocally says we are evil to the core! Most of our founding fathers knew this and set up a constitution that would help to protect against this evil but said it wouldn’t hold up to the test of time without a populas that wasn’t morally accountable to God! We are heading towards a one world government as described in the bible which means the beginning of the horrible evil described but will end with God having the final act! If you don’t know this already the clarity of it is only made by finding out why Christ came and died and that He loves us more deeply than we can imagine as another replied He is the only true benevolent one! May He touch you in the way He has me and so many others! Blessings
I wasn’t aware that asylums were allowing institutionalized patients to use the internet.
The flash from a nuclear bomb is the visible part of the broad spectrum EMP. The flash is the same across the whole band from gamma on the high frequency end to infrared on the low end. Nearly the same with lightning which will knock out modern electronics on a chip by chip basis. It happened when a bolt hit our tree. A microwave oven makes a pretty good Faraday cage.
A little late in the game to be concerned about somthing that happened long ago. We need to deal with the here and now and what we intend to do about it. The military needs to grow some balls and say enough is enough and rebel against orders that destroy innocent people and planet earth. That is the truth and I stand firm.
Yes, the here and now is composed of the past, present and future now. To alter the future is to change the present now.
Those sick basrards haven’t changed since the beginning of time. Maybe people haven’t been keeping up with human history and behavior but nothing has changed. The controlling elite is still in power and will be until they are PHYSICALLY REMOVED from power. Until people around the world unite as ONE and stand together with the military forces who would be united, also, nothing will change unless there is a divine intervention or something of that magnitude. Nuclear power/energy is extreme. Man is stupid and greedy and reckless with power. Men in power have no wisdom. Look around at this world and tell me what you see. Use your own discernment and be honest with yourself and you will see where we’re going as a species. It’s a little late in the game to concern
Remember the SDS. Their goal was to overthrow the corrupt government. What actually came of that was the Obama Administration.
I am glad to see that our Founding Father’s of our displaced Republic understood this human principle of our still yet evolving consciousness and basic temperament toward life, as we still are ignorant of our own divinity, but less able to consciously employ it. Nuclear energy is a total contempt for life and other forms are available to us, like hydrogen technology, etc. But, We The People, must Restore our Republic by understanding how we lost it in the first place and by whom it was taken from our forefather’s and made us slaves once again.
hocus pocus… Nuclear energy by itself is not the problem.. Man’s misuse of this gift causes all the problems.. all nuclear material ever produced would fit in a very small area.. the problem is: this is an area impossible for man to control for a couple thousand years!! The answer is nuclear Fusion.. Clean, endless energy.. Instead of spending billions on unsightly windmills and solar farms.. how about using that money on research for fission energy.,. power to send us to the stars and beyond!
Love for all is the only answer.
Pamela, although Love is a good start you need to open your eye’s to the fact that man has a sin nature and is incapable of loving everyone all the time. Satan is the root cause of the problem here. He is the opposite of love which is Jesus Christ. All that is going on is a spiritual battle between good and evil. Jesus, who is God in man form has already defeated Satan who is evil and wishes to devourer as many human souls before his time ends when Jesus comes back to earth to collect those who don’t follow Satan. It is not enough just to love and it will all work out, you have to put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ in order to have eternal life in Heaven. You need to find a Bible teaching church and learn what the Bible tells you. Only you can make that decision.
It doesn’t matter anymore. We’re on the road to destruction and no one here on earth has the will to stop it. Those in power think that they will have the earth all to themselves when they are finished killing us off. I’ve got news for them. They will be joining their master Lucifer in hell.
I believe that it is not only possible but will happen in the future as it is spoken of in the Bible that this will happen in the day that we live. When it speaks of Russia coming down on Israel it says that they come down with weapons of wood and it also mentions that a day of Darkness will come that triggers the coming of Christ Jesus to earth. JOEL 2;1-2. EZEKIEL 38,39.
It could also be divine intervention by God so that man does not destroy this earth with atomic warfare. One comet from outer space could also cause this thing to happen or even an explosion on the sun.
I really don’t think we will ever know the EMP results of the early tests simply because the people in charge were more interested in the Nuclear Fallout and Radiation effects at the time. There was not the dependence on Electronics that there is today, so it probably wasn’t even a concern, but one of those “Oh, look what happened!” kind of reactions when the EMP hit. It was probably just an after-thought to note in it the reports.
Candace, the Commander in Chief of the Military is the Sitting President. Anyone who wants the truth, from this Government is out of Luck!
That phrase is used often but technically he is not unless there is declared war.
What the F??? do you think Afganastan is??
Afganistan looks like, smells like and talks like a duck but it is NOT a war until the US Congress declares it. Check the US Constitution
You are wrong! The office of the president is the
Commander in Chief of all military forces at all times, not just during conflict! If you don’t think so, go read the articles of the Constituition or go ask anyone who has served our country like I have!
Although the President is the CIC of the Military, he does not have the complete authority to declare war, that power is reserved for congress.
God Bless u sir for protecting the rest of us
I read a novel “One Second After” or close to those words. It was very informative, although the characters were fictional. It was scary as well – the old timers and people with life threatening medical problems, oxygen users, diabetics…..unprepared government…all described in a hypothetical situation. It wont be pretty. The proof of the depravity of the human race, people with no fear of God and the Final Judgment.
The worst part being, they ARE in control and the government will do their bidding. I happen to believe we can legislate our way back to sanity as long as everyone understands compromise , honest negotiation and the policies and agendas that brought us to this point. Failing that, there will be blood in the streets because we will be having a civil war and no one wants that to happen.
ThCheck out the documentary: “The Atom Bomb Movie”. Someone’s information is incorrect. Nevertheless, it’s not an EMP that would kill us.
I gather an airburst about that time doused street lights in Hawaii 800 miles away.
According to the Wiki coordinates, Starfish Prime was detonated over the core center of the infamous Ring of Fire. That’s very disturbing news! This is exactly what one can expect when the military is given license to perform testing without first consulting or obtaining an environmental impact assessment. The DoD will undoubtedly deny access to military testing of any kind. It would rather the public speculate about UFOs, than come forward. There are some sound reasons for that, of course. The only one group they might answer to is the EPA who will perform an assessment, if permitted, but they too will not release their findings to the general public if the program concerned is still classified. Today they have State Secrets Act and over one thousand other built-in laws to protect their interests and agendas ~ you should not push for information, but rather find or send in a mole to acquire the information for you.
The worst thing ppl can do is not press on for further information. Apathy is actually self ruination.
Has any information surfaced regarding the biospheres recently inserted globally?
There is a great book written by the astronauts (all countries) It was written as they were
compelled to send pictures to the people. Of course those pictures were blocked but THE
HOME PLANET is well done and worth the purchase! Take a good look and keep the faith!
Universal higher powers are real and should constantly be thanked!
Frank: Yes I was there!
And you are still alive. Tell that to all the nuts so worried about the fall out of FUKUSHIMA!
Boarded USS MACGOFFIN APA 199 in Okinawa in July 1958. APA 199 was in 35 blasts in Operation Hardtack 1.
I believe there are so many secrets being kept from us that our own military would have to take a stand with the people over serving this tyranical govt.
the best way to gard against this insanity is to take all the world leaders who would be capable of using this on another and execute them all. then we could fit collars on the rest that would detect when they lie, each collar would contain enough explosive to blow their heads completely off when they automaticly detonate
Great idea – Obummer wouldn’t live 10 seconds after he got one – The first time he opened his mouth… >BOOM!!!<
Now I'm not saying that EVERYTHING he says is a lie – sometimes he makes statements that have a GRAIN of truth. (About 2% & 98%)
That is rather silly but an awesome vision nonetheless.
This new book, “EMP – Protect Family, Homes and Community” will not stop the forthcoming catastrophic national disaster from a nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse. But, you will learn, understand, and use plans for multiple escape options that overcome limitations of the EMP survivalist.
The Internet and elsewhere are replete with articles on EMP, with most addressing the cataclysmic damage from an upper atmospheric burst. Few speak to ways and means to restore electric power and none on how to shield a garage, pantry, home, building, let alone a village or town, except this book. Wakeup America; while you didn’t expect 9-11, EMP is acknowledged to be infinitely more damaging and destructively subtle..
One of our readers writes, “Within a few months after an EMP attack, or any other event that causes long-term loss of the electric power grid, most people will become weary and despondent because of the hardship and starvation, and they will become desperate to get their modern civilization back. Without prior planning and action, this will take years.
Think of this article every time you are standing in line to buy your next big screen TV, your next designer couch, or your new expensive fully upgraded computer system. ATTENTION K MART SHOPPERS….There is a blue light special of FOOD SUPPLIES on Isle 8!!! You can not eat your new TV….Nor can you eat your new designer couch or your upgraded computer that was so much more important than your family’s emergency food supply. And you are going to look pretty ridiculousness forging for food in your five inch designer heels. I guess you could use them to dig for worms and gouge out the eyes of the looters. Food & water will be the new wealth and the only thing that matters to your starving family. Even gold will have no value if an EMP happens.
I agree 100% with you. Their will be alot of people dying of starvation when this gets rolling. We are now seeing the forming of the New World Order in which the Anti-Christ will take control after the Rapture happens. For anyone left behind, it will not be good!!
rapture is a false doctrine. Watch SHEPERDS CHAPEL FOR 5 episodes with Arnold Murray, not Dennis Murray & the truth will be revealed
Sorry, no secret rapture… read Matthew 24:29-30.
For those of you that have asked, “What is an EMP?” It stands for Electro-Magnetic-Pulse. Interacting magnetic fields is what creates usable/distributable electrical power. The “Pulse” part of it, is why allot of people have “surge protectors” in their houses and for their electronics. The EMP explosion, causes MASSIVE UNCONTROLLED magnetic-electrical pulse waves to interact with ANYTHING made of metal, knocks out almost ALL electrical devices, and actually melts the distribution electrical wires right on the poles,or in the ground. Basically, this would happen to any “wire,” connected or not. ANYTHING “electrical” will cease to function and will be severally damaged. And darkness descends upon the land. It would take literally YEARS (decades?) to re-build, yes, “RE-BUILD,” because its can’t be re-booted like after an electrical storm, the entire nation’s electrical infrastructure. Such an “attack” would leave the target area to only 19th century technology, until they might be able to re-build. Such a weapon, is designed to remove the enemy’s ability to respond, communicate or coordinate any counter-offensive.
The results of the test in 1962 were known to many in the military as an EMP attack would eliminate most of our defense capabilities. Later as an electronics engineer many of the projects worked on had to be built with EMP in mind.
There was a wooden “Trestle” built large enough to hold a B52. Many elements of military hardware were subjected to a focused 10Mev pulse to determine their hardness. It was very obvious when one failed.
Over the years nuclear weapons have been “tuned” for specific usages including EMP attacks.
As it is true other countries have the capability,but the sun emitting an X 10 class flare would definitely accomplish the same task and possibly with longer lasting results for most of the world.
This may be what another nation, likely Germany, will use against many nations, including America and Israel in the not so distant future. Our military is so far behind, funding so cut, and other strong powers are spending more and farther advanced in technology than USA.
It’s coming. But I believe the Creator will not allow mankind to destroy His creation and He will intervene. …”unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved…” A wonderful new dawn of civilization will remain and flourish in the New Kingdom, as promised. He has a plan the likes of which those of us not so merciful, loving, and forgiving can imagine. His plan extends to and includes all His children. His love is great. He has a plan for you and me, together with Him in eternity. See you there.
Why will Germany attack someone? I resent this popular anti-German movement. Nobody knows, or cares to learn, the story behind Germany and the World Wars. Stop hating Germany.
I was a control tower operator on Kwajalein then. I had the mid-watch and It was pitch black and I had got up to get a drink of water. I took a couple steps and like a snap of a finger it was as bright as mid day. I thought I must be in a time warp or something. Then the light started to fade, and eventually faded to just a reddish glow to the North. I realized then that they had set off the bomb up at Bikini. Operation Evergreen it was called, We all wore dosometers, but never saw much radiation results.
What does EMP stand for? Thank you…
Did you type it in your search engine yet?
E.M.P. stands for Electromagnetic Pulse. EMP is produced by our Sun by the way. It can come in different wavelengths just like the Radio Waves that your radio picks-up for different channels. A “Faraday Box/Cage is basically a metal container that may be made of solid or a mesh material. The mesh will determine just what wavelengths of the “EMP Waves” will penetrate the Box/Cage. A cheap one might consist of a non-conductive box(your sensitive electronics inside) covered with a double layer of tin foil and grounded(cold water pipe in older homes using copper) or a metal rod sunk at least three feet in the ground.(some say six feet).
What about the first test?During WWII they tested the first Atom bomb on a little Atoll in the middle of the Pacific,the Islands of Enewetok were evacuated of all natives.Have they ever finished the clean up of that little atoll in the middle of the Pacific so that the natives can return to their Home?
EMPs destroy only batteries and electrical grids.They only ham people who are solely dependent on electricity. That’s why getting off the grid is so important.
The Russians continued to use vacuum tube electronics for quite awhile after the U.S. went to solid state circuitry for the reasons that you mention. I assume that they finally hardened their equipment with shielding as time went on. A popular magazine ran an article several years ago on building a $400 EMP bomb. It consisted of a rod made of explosives and coils which generated a surge when the explosives detonated progressively down the rod. I thought it was really dumb to publish an article like that but no one has apparently tried it or it didn’t work. Hopefully, no one will. It seems strange to me that the U.S. has not done more to harden our network infrastructures, especially for banking, the electrical grid, and industry. There are several books on the subject and they issue dire warnings about the need for EMP protection.
The only being in the end who can save us or raise us from death is our Father. Yet for Him to do so…. no one wants it. They may hear Him say, “I never knew you”. Make yourself known to Him by loving Him yes, but also by heeding His words AND OBEYING His laws of love….Draw near to Him. He gave you a choice and a free will. He says “choose life! Why should you die?”…..His desire is that we choose of our own free will to love and seek Him by obedience to His way of life. A way of giving. Get out your Bibles and blow the dust off or you may soon be dust.
Check out this book…. ‘One second after’ If it doesn’t get your attention nothing will!
There is another book that I found even more convincing – Lights Out
“Lights Out” by Ted Koppel will tell you everything you need to know. It’s non-fiction and it’s amazing so few have heard about it or read it. Agree with the many others who suggest thinking about your relationship with God and accepting Jesus. That has always been the only way to truly be “saved”. Evil reigns down here until God intervenes again. Choose sides now. That has been the choice every generation has faced and it seems ours has been choosing the wrong one.
I was on the beach between Honolulu International and Hickam AFB to watch the event, along with many others. At the flash, it was at least as bright as noonday. The afterglow was enough so that one could read a newspaper for as much as 10 minutes. The color film in my camera that took a picture immediately following the flash, show a greenish blob. I don’t remember anything about any problems with the local grid. The EMP could have cause some transformers to momentarily saturate magnetically and blow a fuse. There were no integrated circuits at the time, and the transistors were fairly large, and would have required a larger pulse to damage them than what we have today. I think they were in the dark age of nuclear technology at the time and were, more or less, operating our of Dr Jeckel’s laboratory. As noted in the Wiki article, those attempting to monitor the event had the instruments overloaded. The only recording material in those days was mag tape. This would have been fed information from the overloaded instruments at best. The microwave links have, as a first device in their receivers, a diode that’s very sensitive to static electricity. I learned from the radar guys, that you couldn’t even handle these in your hands without destroying them. An EMP could have knocked these out. No mention is made of the failure modes of the things that went wrong. I don’t think that they are hiding anything that happened that day that would not be overwhelmed and obsoleted by what has been learned since them.
Thanks for publishing this. I have searched high and low for info on the 1958 tests. I remember the effects of one of the tests. At the time I was in the US NAVY stationed at Barbers Point, Hawaii and was in a flight crew flying as a radioman on the Pacific Barrier. We flew 15 hour missions from Midway Island to Alaska and back to Midway Island, extending the Dew Line early warning network. When the test I remember went off, we had real communications problems. My memory is not real good after so many years but it seems that we had problems for about 24 hours. The initial result was no communications for several hours and then very slow gradual improvement. Perhaps this was due to the proximty to the detonation site. I don’t know. I only had one other radioman shipmate who did remember the “fun” but he is long gone.
Thanks for at least letting me know I haven’t lost it and I still have one marble left!
“Do you think there is more to this story than meets the eye?”
Maybe, but not likely.
“If the government has more information on the EMP effects of the 1958 tests, why has it not been made available as the results from the 1962 tests have been?”
It’s entirely possible that in these earlier tests they didn’t anticipate much of an EMP, if any, and once they realized it happened, they were more ready for it in the subsequent tests and were able to capture more accurate data. That’s a far simpler explanation than the idea that there is some cover-up of the EMP data from the earlier tests. If they were actually trying to cover up the EMP from the earlier tests, why publish such data from the later ones when all that would do is make people suspicious about the earlier ones? Although I bear little love or trust for the organized criminal organization that the federal government has devolved into, the simplest explanation is by far the most likely.
In 1958 I suddenly became ill and it was determined that “out of the blue” I had become allergic to milk and milk products. For about a year I was unable to consume milk products. Huge welts or hives would erupt on every surface of my skin. I always thought that it had something to do with the government’s testing of some chemical or worse and that the cattle and their milk had been affected. Several years ago I heard about some tests that occurred around that period of time. Could this be some of the tests which affected me at that time? I lived in Kansas at that time.
It is a sad commentary, but an EMP attack over Kansas at 225ish miles is the only hope for America and the World.
Harsh, but we are headed directly into a 3rd WW, with nukes all around.
If America is hit with an EMP, our Naval and foreign bases will eradicate the attacker, and POSSIBLY, avoid the self inflicted Human extinction event on planet Earth. Unlikely, but, at least possible.
Awful, I know…man, what a buzz kill.
The ’58 tests won’t have much to tell us; not only instrumentation, but our entire technological base is now entirely different. Back then, it was all tubes, which are for the most part impervious to EMP….there were NO semiconductors per se, which EVERYTHING runs on today.
Absoloutely zero tests have been run in atmospheric conditions similar to what we are facing today….laboratory conditions CAN NOT duplicate what will happen in a “Real” EMP – thus nearly all our information and preparation is built on surmisal.