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

[KSmith]

--- KSmith <teraboat at prodigy.net> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:46:48 -0700 (PDT)
> From: KSmith <teraboat at prodigy.net>
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Interesting article: EMP:
> America's Achilloes' Heel
> To: John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>
> 
> John and John,
> 
> The NukAlert would still be working. It was tested
> at
> Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Div. in Patuxent
> River, Maryland in May 2003 and continued to operate
> after an excess of over 50kV/m was blasted at it (It
> meets mil spec EMP survival requirements. Also, at
> Los
> Alamos it continued to function (although after a
> short recovery time eg 20 minutes) after being
> exposed
> to 5000R/hr for two hours. Don't underestimate the
> little NukAlert; alot of research and testing went
> into it.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Karl Smith
> Kno-Rad, Inc.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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 
> > > >
> _______________________________________________
> > > > You are currently subscribed to the radsafe
> > > mailing list radsafe at radlab.nl
> > > >
> > > > Before posting a message to RadSafe be sure to
> > > have read and 
> > > > understood the RadSafe rules. These can be
> found
> > > at: 
> > > > http://radlab.nl/radsafe/radsaferules.html
> > > >
> > > > For information on how to subscribe or
> > unsubscribe
> > > and other settings 
> > > > visit: http://radlab.nl/radsafe/
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > You are currently subscribed to the radsafe
> > mailing
> > > list radsafe at radlab.nl
> > > 
> > > Before posting a message to RadSafe be sure to
> > have
> > > read and understood the RadSafe rules. These can
> > be
> > > found at:
> > http://radlab.nl/radsafe/radsaferules.html
> > > 
> > > For information on how to subscribe or
> unsubscribe
> > > and other settings visit:
> > http://radlab.nl/radsafe/
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > +++++++++++++++++++
> > "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
> > 
> > 
> > 		
> >
> ____________________________________________________
> > 
> > Yahoo! Sports 
> > Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy
> Football
> > 
> > http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com
> > _______________________________________________
> > You are currently subscribed to the radsafe
> mailing
> > list radsafe at radlab.nl
> > 
> > Before posting a message to RadSafe be sure to
> have
> > read and understood the RadSafe rules. These can
> be
> > found at:
> http://radlab.nl/radsafe/radsaferules.html
> > 
> > For information on how to subscribe or unsubscribe
> > and other settings visit:
> http://radlab.nl/radsafe/
> > 
> 
> 
> Karl F. Smith
> Kno-Rad, Inc.
> PO Box 400
> Rockville, VA 23146, USA
> phone: 804-749-4381
> fax:   804-749-4657
> cell:  804-512-6556
> KSmith at KnoRad.com
> http://www.KnoRad.com
> 


Karl F. Smith
Kno-Rad, Inc.
PO Box 400
Rockville, VA 23146, USA
phone: 804-749-4381
fax:   804-749-4657
cell:  804-512-6556
KSmith at KnoRad.com
http://www.KnoRad.com