[109512] in Cypherpunks
Use of EMP weapon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frederick Burroughs)
Sat Mar 27 15:09:12 1999
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 14:56:46 -0500
From: Frederick Burroughs <riburr@shentel.net>
To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@ns.minder.net>
Reply-To: Frederick Burroughs <riburr@shentel.net>
As you can tell I'm a bit wound up over this Yugoslavia thing. When it
started, the first day, there was an evening news report at 6:30 or
7:00pm EST, March 24, 1999, must have been NBC or ABC, telling about the
use of the B2 bomber. The report was interesting because it said that a
new weapon was being used to disrupt electronics, I think it mentioned
electric grids, computers and communications equipment would be
temporarily affected. Sounded a lot like an electromagnetic pulse
weapon. Never heard anything else about it, no retractions or
confirmations. I'm guessing use would have been early in the operation
and limited so as not to adversely affect NATO electronics. Would such a
weapon have to be nuclear? Did anyone else see this report?
