Electromagnetic Pulse

Electromagnetic Pulse has been known of since the 1940’s when nuclear weapons were being trialed and produced. Yet, due to the lack of sufficient data the exact effects of EMP were not fully known until 1962. During this time a series of tests were being conducted which were code named ‘Fishbowl’.

“An electromagnetic pulse consists of a broadband, high intensity, short duration burst of electromagnetic energy. If nuclear detonation occurs, the electromagnetic pulse consists of a continuous frequency spectrum. Most of the energy is distributed throughout the lower frequencies of 3Hz and 30kHz.”(1)

Electromagnetic pulse can also consist of the electromagnetic radiation from a nuclear explosion caused by Compton-recoil electrons and photoelectrons from photons scattered in the materials of the nuclear device or in a surrounding medium. The electric and magnetic fields generated by the blast may encounter with electrical or electronic systems to produce damagi...