[UFO Chicago] Feasibility of e-bomb (EMP) technology

[Mills Reece-RMILLS1]

EMP is very real and very hard to protect against.  An atomic blast up in
the upper atmosphere will do almost nothing in the way of physical or
radioactive fall-out damages, but the pulse will render almost all solid
state / micro-electronic devices useless.  The effects are almost always
effective to a large degree and if you consider the amount of unshielded
devices (almost all are suseptable) there are in use in our National
Infrastructure (Electrical Plants, Factories, Refineries, telecomm, alarm
clocks, coffee makers, televisions, radios, etc.), just look around.

The feasability is another thing altogether though.  Un and Underdeveloped
countries will not have the resources to get an "E-Bomb" as you refer to it,
into the upper atmosphere to facilitate an electronic black-out, they don't
care about having anything left after an attack and they are just more
likely to deliver their "payload" to you personally.

So... Don't worry about it.  ;)



Raymond Reece Mills

Vice President of Outside Sales and Marketing

UFO Chicago




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sten Turpin [mailto:sturpin@fheg.follett.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 9:44 AM
> To: ufo@ufo.chicago.il.us
> Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] Feasibility of e-bomb (EMP) technology
> 
> 
> Supposedly, they're pretty simple. I've always wondered why 
> we never heard of 
> them being used. Then again, if it really was Osama Bin Laden 
> (and honestly, 
> I think the people investigating this case were researching 
> backwards- here's 
> our suspect list, let's build the evidence, rather than the other way 
> around), the goal is not to damage the US economy, but to 
> kill people. I 
> wonder why groups like Greenpeace or the militia weirdos 
> aren't more into 
> EMP...
> 
> (OT: newsmax- BWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! *cough* *hrm* 'scuse me....)
> 
> On Friday 21 September 2001 09:32, you wrote:
> > In the wake of the terrorist attack on New York, I just got a couple
> > of URL's sent to me about E-bombs, which use electromagnetic pulses
> > to permanently disable electrical devices. Anybody here know to what
> > degree this is actually feasible? If the technology is feasible and
> > the results are as depicted, what protections or countermeasures can
> > be used if one is detonated?
> >
> > The addresses to start you reading:
> >
> >    http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/20/185816.shtml
> >
> >    http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/military/2001/9/e-bomb/
> >
> >
> > --
> > Eric Pement - pemente@northpark.edu
> >
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