Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings

Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings
Aubrey Beardsley paintings
The destructive nature of an EMP was discovered during early American nuclear weapons testing. When an atomic bomb was exploded high above Earth in 1958, the sudden release of gamma radiation in the air resulted in a massive EMP wave. Street lamps as far away in Hawaii were blown out while navigation systems were disrupted for 18 hours by residual fluctuating interference.Non-Nuclear OptionsSince then, scientists have researched EMP and other "directed energy weapons" and developed designs that don't require a massive nuclear explosion to create devastating EMP bursts. One such "conventional" EMP weapon, for example, is the so-called flux compression generator, or FCG.It's a bomb that uses a tube of conventional explosives surrounded by a coil of copper wire. A battery charges the coil and creates an electromagnet. But when the bomb explodes, the electrically charged coil shorts out and compresses the magnetic waves into the destructive EMP.