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

[John Jacobus]

Any electronic units that used vacuum tubes would not
be affected by EMF.  

--- John Grant <grantjoh at pacbell.net> wrote:

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


		
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