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

[John Grant]

I have a word processor made by the Linotype Company around 1939.
Its electronics and memory units are not effected by EMP.

John Andrews 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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