• An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), also referred to as a transient electromagnetic disturbance (TED), is a brief burst of electromagnetic energy. The origin...
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  • with the Earth's magnetic field and electromagnetic shielding of targets. The fact that an electromagnetic pulse is produced by a nuclear explosion was...
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    Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMFT, or PEMF therapy), also known as low field magnetic stimulation (LFMS) is the use of electromagnetic fields...
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    temporary (if not permanent) loss of much modern technology due to electromagnetic pulses. Some scientists, such as Alan Robock, have speculated that a thermonuclear...
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  • The worst effects of a Soviet high altitude test were from the electromagnetic pulse of the nuclear test on 22 October 1962 (during the Cuban Missile...
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    ratified by some of the states party to the Treaty. The strong electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that results has several components. In the first few tenths...
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    (“emission of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources”) refers to a singular event which is commonly thought of...
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    former. The technique is sometimes called high-velocity forming or electromagnetic pulse technology. A special coil is placed near the metallic workpiece...
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    Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is the ability of electrical equipment and systems to function acceptably in their electromagnetic environment, by...
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  • requirements for products to meet some level of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) regulation. Electromagnetic interference divides into several categories...
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    coherent nuclear electromagnetic pulse (NEMP) which lasts about one millisecond. Secondary effects may last for more than a second. The pulse is powerful enough...
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  • electromagnetic devices that generate an electromagnetic pulse without the costs, side effects, or enormous range of a nuclear electromagnetic pulse device...
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  • In optics, an ultrashort pulse, also known as an ultrafast event, is an electromagnetic pulse whose time duration is of the order of a picosecond (10−12...
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  • writer William R. Forstchen. The novel deals with an unexpected electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States as it affects the people living in and...
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  • escape the device, and a neutron bomb forms. In both cases the electromagnetic pulse effect and the radioactive fallout are substantially lower than...
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    physics, electromagnetism is an interaction that occurs between particles with electric charge via electromagnetic fields. The electromagnetic force is...
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    centuries before light was understood to be an electromagnetic wave. However, the theory of electromagnetism, as it is currently understood, grew out of...
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    In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is a self-propagating wave of the electromagnetic field that carries momentum and radiant energy through space...
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    the Thor missile from Johnston Atoll. Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that was far larger than expected, so much larger that it...
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    external or internal electromagnetic fields, and thus they block a large amount of the electromagnetic interference (see also electromagnetic shielding). They...
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    ATLAS-I (category Pulsed power)
    Transmission-Line Aircraft Simulator), better known as Trestle, was a unique electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generation and testing apparatus built between 1972 and 1980...
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    Operation Fishbowl (category Electromagnetic radiation)
    The electromagnetic pulse generated by a high-altitude nuclear explosion appeared to have very significant differences from the electromagnetic pulse generated...
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  • capability to enable sustained airborne operations Hardening against electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and nuclear effects Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications...
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    of the greater power of the transmitted electromagnetic pulse with respect to a reflected echo of that pulse. United States airborne ESM receivers are...
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    after four denials of visas. Karaganda suffered the most severe electromagnetic pulse effects ever observed when its electrical power plant was set on...
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    An electromagnetic pump is a pump that moves liquid metal, molten salt, brine, or other electrically conductive liquid using electromagnetism. A magnetic...
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  • city's electrical equipment drawing power/electrical load, while the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from a surface/ground-burst explosion would cause little damage...
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    ionizing radiation, firestorms, radioactive nuclear fallout, an electromagnetic pulse, and a radar blackout. The first nuclear weapons were developed...
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    Simplest type of magnet "kicker" Electromagnetic forming – Metal forming process Electromagnetic pulse – Burst of electromagnetic energy (EMP) Explosively pumped...
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    thundercloud ("DC" field) often associated with sprites, or due to the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) produced by a lightning discharge, often associated with elves...
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