From:	TODD ROBBINS <digger-@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: SRII Lethality
Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 1997 19:04:33 -0600

Paul J. Adam wrote:
>
> Dr Martin Fackler has produced a fairly extensive body of work on this
> subject.

Yup

> EMP exists, and military equipment is hardened against it. A lot of its
> effects are overrated, except in very special circumstances.

A lot of military equipment was hardended against it, but it really has
more to do with paranoia and the fear that new atomic weapons might
provide a more powerful pulse. As it is, the electromagnetic pulse
generated by even a high yeild thermonuclear warhead is negligble at
best. EMP was more of a theory than a reality, and tests have proven
that while the pulse does exist it's effects are virtually non-existant.

Digger