Today, not many people may be familiar with a U.S. military operation from the early 1960's called "Starfish Prime." The details are fascinating, but here's the short version: over a remote National ...
If a large enough percentage of infrastructure sectors were damaged then our recovery from a broad EMP attack would take years if not decades. Many consider an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on ...
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A postwar replica of the 'Little Boy' nuclear weapon, which was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. U.S. government Photo, circa 1946. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ...