[ RadSafe ] Interesting article: EMP: America's Achilloes' Heel

[John Jacobus]

Yes, if not properly grounded the NukeAlert will be
shorted out.  Of course, if you too close to the
nuclear blast, so will you.  See. 
http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/effects/effects11.pdf

--- John Andrews <andrewsjp at chartertn.net> wrote:

> I receive Imprimis, the speech digest from Hillsdale
> College.  The June 
> 2005 issue has an interesting article about the
> effects of 
> electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from a nuclear weapon. 
> See: 
> http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/default.htm.  Go
> to the archives if 
> you read this after the next edition is printed. 
> The article gives a 
> fairly concise description of the overall effects of
> EMP on out national 
> infrastructure. Made me think about what effects it
> would have on me and 
> my family.  (Your NukAlert will probably be fried,
> too!)  The author, 
> Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. seems credible.  Worth
> reading.
> 
> John Andrews, Knoxville, Tennessee 

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"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and never shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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