Re: EMP terrorist weapons, and the ease of creation thereof

From: Andrew Clough (aclough@mit.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 20:09:32 MST

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    I'm afraid that the New Scientist link doesn't work. The article appeared
    in the 01/07/2000 issue. Here are a few more links

    This guy made his own, pretty successfully

    http://lists.travellercentral.com/pipermail/tml/2001-August/010587.html

    Here is a more technical site on electromagnetic bombs, though from a
    military standpoint

    http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~carlo/archive/MILITARY/APSC/wp50-draft.pdf

    At 06:56 PM 2/25/2003 -0500, you wrote:
    >Earlier on this question (though not on this thread) I mentioned that I
    >believe that EMP devices based on flux compressors were easy to
    >make. Here is some more detailed information. To summarize, you can make
    >a device capable of taking out a few blocks of civilian electronics with
    >only a small piece of explosive and some stuff from a hardware sore, and
    >you can fit it into a briefcase. The military is also considering the use
    >of flux compressors to power weapons like railguns or lasers.
    >
    >New Scientist's article on the dangers of EMP weapons:
    >
    >http://archive.newscientist.com/archive.jsp?id=22453900
    >
    >An in depth explanation on flux compressors at Los Alamos Labs:
    >
    >http://lansce.lanl.gov/research/accelerators/fortgang.htm
    >
    >
    >
    >Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't
    >assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume
    >you opponent is the ignorant one-until you can show it isn't you.
    >-M.N. Plano

    Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't assign
    to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume you
    opponent is the ignorant one-until you can show it isn't you.
    -M.N. Plano



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