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| | ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE THREATS TO U.S. MILITARY AND CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | These weapons as well, these nonnuclear electromagnetic weapons, have several characteristics that could make them attractive to an adversary of the U.S. On the other hand, they have the potential disadvantage of requiring closer proximity to their targets to be effective than do nuclear EMP weapons. |
 | | At still higher electromagnetic field levels, both nuclear and nonnuclear signals can be induced that are comparable in size to the normal signal levels in a digital system, the one bit versus the zero bit, for example, injecting anomalous bits, corrupting data and/or producing system upset. |
 | | Indeed, electromagnetic pulses, EMP, generated by high-altitude nuclear explosions have riveted the attention of the military nuclear technical community for more than three and a half decades since the first comparatively modest one very unexpectedly and abruptly turned off the lights over a few million square miles of the mid-Pacific. |
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