[109515] in Cypherpunks
Re: Use of EMP weapon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sat Mar 27 15:48:42 1999
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:30:15 +0100 (CET)
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 02:56 PM 3/27/99 -0500, Frederick Burroughs wrote:
>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?
Yes I saw it too. I could not find anything on it in the news afterwards
either.
The curious thing about the report, the reason it stuck in memory,
as you say, was that it mentioned things besides the obvious radar
and RF communications jamming.
Wouldn't have to be nuclear.
Either a reporter was mistaken or someone else screwed up.
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