The Electromagnetic Bomb

[David Honig]

At 08:30 PM 8/7/01 -0700, Brent wrote:
><cough> bs <cough>

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>  E-Bombs generate electromagnatic pulse which destroys any and all electric
>current running in any particular area it is detonated in. E-Bombs are a
>national threat and are being sold on the black market for $400 to
terrorists.

Yeah the same terrorists who buy thousand-dollar frequency counters
to use as bug sweepers..

>they generate a large magnetic pulse (with a large coil of wire) which has a
>lot of current running through it. Then the chemical inside explodes touching
>the coil of wire causing it to be a moving short circut. When it hits, all
>current running through any metal or electricity-using object is destroyed.

This is a Joe Sixpack-level misconstrual of an explosive-driven
impulse generator that uses the explosion to collapse an inductor's
magnetic field. Standard stuff, described in lots of places on the web.
Not very discrete, being explosive driven.