The peak DORATOS of novel non-lethal arsenals of U.S. guns are electromagnetic pulses
In
an era when the electrical networks, electronics, automation and
computers are vitally necessary for the function and survival of a
modern society, a weapon that would harm irreparably the electronic
infrastructure of a country would have been worse, and the explosion of a
atomic bomb! The
"exotic" this weapon, developed in complete secrecy in the past two
decades, is already available in the single global superpower. Called Electromagnetic Bomb (E - Bomb) and is considered by many analysts as the "ruler of the next war." However,
because the electromagnetic bomb is relatively simple to manufacture
and extremely cheap, many fear that they might be and ideal weapon for
terrorists. Does approaching an "electromagnetic Pearl Harbor"?
GEORGE WRITES STAMKOS (stamkos@post.com)
Nuclear, biological and other "weapons of mass destruction" are the worst fears of humanity. However, some experts prefer last to worry about a little-known threat: electromagnetic bombs (E-bombs), which herald the era of dominance of non-lethal weapons (Non Lethal Weapons) in the conduct of military operations in the digital era. The only good thing with these new types of bombs that do not kill people, not destroy buildings and facilities. Yet electromagnetic bombs pose a great threat to technologically advanced countries like the U.S.. Considered invisible and instantaneous mass' killers electrical appliances. " They
can cause an "electromagnetic Hiroshima" destroying a radius of several
kilometers every electrical and electronic equipment: telephones,
radios, televisions, computers, refrigerators, and radar, almost any
device that has trantsistor, circuits and cables.
Externally similar to any other normal bomb, except from that they have within them a large coil around the explosive device. The explosion creates the instant a powerful electromagnetic pulse (ElectroMagnetic Pulse - EMP), which is essentially an "animated short", which can send a technologically developed society back 200 years. This is seriously the Pentagon.
The
U.S., already incorporate electromagnetic bombs in their arsenal, not
yet taken sufficient precautions to ensure the survival of their defense
systems in case of electromagnetic attack by terrorists, much less from
a hostile country.
According
to experts in defense technologies electromagnetic weapons launch a new
era in the conduct of warfare and terrorist attacks. The possibility of some terrorist groups to attack the U.S. seriously concerned U.S. officials especially after the attacks of 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The
Richard Clarke, occupying the new position of Director for the Security
of Cyberspace (Cyberspace Security Adviser), created a special board to
protect the survivability of vulnerable computer systems and
communications networks in the country. Indeed some of these specialists made clear that the electromagnetic could have brought the weapons of choice for terrorists.
CIA
Director George Tenet, after the events of September 11, 2001, said
that although no evidence yet that a country or a terrorist group in
possession of any electromagnetic weapon, it does not exclude the
possibility that there are such devices in a production process. Reports
from Asia even say that at least one country, India, has already built
such a weapon for "peaceful purposes", ostensibly to study the damaging
effects to protect from it ...
ILEKTROMAGNITIKOS PULSE: A "Electra-tragic" FREQUENCY
The destructive nature of the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) was discovered during the first test of U.S. nuclear weapons. When
in 1958 an atomic bomb was exploded high in the atmosphere of the
earth, the sudden release of gamma radiation in air resulted in the
creation of a massive wave electromagnetic pulses. The
lamps street lighting in Hawaii, hundreds of miles away from where the
explosion went off abruptly and navigation of ships in the Pacific went
off for at least 18 hours, while 72 hours was observed phenomenon of
intense ionization of the atmosphere.
The phenomenon of electromagnetic pulse observed strongly and 1962, during the testing of an American atomic bomb force MT 1.4. The
detonation of the bomb, which was at a height of 40 km above the
Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulted in about 30 minutes in
blocking off the radio and satellite equipment for thousands of
kilometers.
Since
the mid 1970's and during the 1980's the U.S. and other nuclear powers,
studying the effects of underground nuclear tests, sought ways to
exploit the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that is created in the process
of nuclear explosion and is particularly dangerous for electronic
equipment. Of
course, it should be noted that the original theory for a device that
will produce a non-nuclear explosion due to electromagnetic pulse
(non-nuclear EMP) is charged to Dr. Arthur Compton, who in 1927,
studying atomic particles, tried to inject plasma electrons. However,
only in the mid 1980's scientists discovered how to construct a
high-energy device, which would generate an electromagnetic pulse
without using nuclear explosion. The first test device demonstrated on immobilized B-52 aircraft and cruise missiles (Cruise Missile) with impressive results. The
time of explosion device an electromagnetic field produced by
electromagnetic induction, which was greater than that which produces a
nuclear explosion!
The
phenomenon of electromagnetic pulse because of the power, is dangerous
for sensitive electronic devices, particularly those based on
semiconductors, microchips known us. Few electronic devices are commercially available, have sufficient protection to survive a large electromagnetic pulse. Radio transmitter, electronic ignition cars, computers and communications centers are ideal targets an electronic pulse.
SYMPIEZOMENIS FLOW GENERATOR: cheap and effective
The first major test of an American bomb, based on an electromagnetic pulse, is scheduled for 2002. Not sure though, if this test is widely reported in the press. The U.S. Army hopes to use electromagnetic bomb in the form of artillery projectiles. The Navy wants to use it to neutralize the missiles fired against ships. And
the Air Force wants to equip all the bombers and other aircraft as well
as cruise missiles and unmanned vessels, with E-bombs, which are
regarded as the most "sophisticated" weapon ever built by the U.S. war
machine. These will be the masters of future wars.
The
electromagnetic bomb utilizes the law of electromagnetic induction of
Faraday, that exploit the extremely sharp change in the magnetic flux to
cause an intensive inductive current. Then
this stream is passed to an antenna from which emitted a powerful
electromagnetic pulse, which can be "fried" any electrical or electronic
device within several kilometers.
The mechanism of electromagnetic bomb based on the creation of a compressible Flow Generator (Flux Compression Generator)
through an explosion creates a "shorted moving", which produces in a
few microseconds an electric pulse intensity of tens of millions of
amperes. More specifically, the electromagnetic bomb based compression of magnetic flux and induced current production-intensive. The compression created by the initial burst, which gradually destroys all the turns of the coil. The magnetic field is compressed and constantly pushed towards the front end of the bomb, where the antenna. When it reaches the inductor current in the antenna crushed and created one incredible intensity electromagnetic pulse. This electromagnetic pulse emitted frequency of several MHz, is valid between 1-10 TW (TeraWatt = 10 ² W) and lasts only a few nanoseconds, but enough to send an entire city in the preindustrial era!
THE NEW "weapon of the poor"?
Generator compressed Flow (FCG), is simple in construction, inexpensive and very effective in use. The
mechanical instructions for making a compressed Flow Generator is
simple and can be made by anyone who has access to shops with
mechanical and electronic products. Today,
several universities in the U.S. manufacture innovative devices for
better study the phenomenon of electromagnetic pulse to design
non-lethal devices to be used by police to immobilize vehicles
persecuted.
The
explosion of an electromagnetic pulse device in the air or near the top
floors of a skyscraper multiplies the damaging effects. The electromagnetic bomb is effective only at a specific distance around it. The larger the equipment, the greater the magnetic field it produces. An electromagnetic pulse device length 30 cm can affect local control centers, telecommunications systems. A
1 to 1.5 meter device can affect all communications and electricity
networks at an airport or, if exploded atop a skyscraper could disable
all devices based on semiconductors within several kilometers.
The
construction of an electromagnetic bomb, although it requires an
intelligent combination of mechanical and electronic systems can be
constructed even by a group of terrorists in during 6 months to 2 years. The estimated cost of 1.000 € for a small prototype and 10.000 € for a larger device radius of several kilometers.
Indeed, according to some sources a compressed Flow Generator costs just 400 €! An
apparatus electromagnetic induction is not only possible to manufacture
with the current technological means, but is accessible even to
terrorists. Terrorists can secure the device and from the black market. There
are also countries that promote terror, like Iraq, Libya, Syria and
North Korea have been able to build an electromagnetic bomb. Almost every country has a technology of the 1940's can be built on. The
Indian Army is considering the construction Generators compressible
flow because of fears that Pakistan, which is a long-running dispute
over Kashmir, perhaps using electromagnetic bombs against the city
Bangalore, which hosts the "Silicon Valley" of India.
TED: THE "SURGICAL" ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS
Apart
from electromagnetic bombs are small and electromagnetic weapons for
the "freeze" or neutralization of computers: a perfect weapon for
computing era. Unlike
electromagnetic bombs, which have great range and cause massive
destruction (Device Killers), the more "surgical" devices TED (Transient
Electromagnetic Device, Device Instant Electromagnetic Radiation),
allowing instantaneous (within 100-200 picosec) emission electromagnetic
radiation to the "hanging" or destroy some electronic parts of a
computer target.
In
devices TED output high power is instant and for this reason they cost
little and do not require large amounts of energy, while the relevant
expertise is available to any library! Anyone could build a device TED's store house, while the materials are so common, it would be impossible to identify the buyers. These
characteristics of the devices make them ideal for today's terrorists:
radar, airports, hospitals, computers in business, telecommunications,
etc. are just some of the potential targets unprotected.
The
David Schriner, a retired engineer weapon systems of the U.S. Navy
subsidized by Congress on the amount of 1 million dollars, presented in
1999 at the conference InfowarCon 1999, a prototype of a device TED
worth $ 300 which, the push of a button, "hung" two computers.
The threat of proliferation of electromagnetic weapons are real. Perhaps the next terrorist attack be made with electromagnetic bomb. At
a time when Islamic terrorism is on the rise, electromagnetic bomb,
with production costs just 400 €, could become the new "weapon of the
poor." The
U.S. war machine, which first incorporated in the arsenal of this bomb,
knows the risks of leakage of electromagnetic bombs to other countries
or terrorist groups, and already planning the yperexeligmena
countermeasures, specifically absorption systems electromagnetic pulse,
electromagnetic shields, nets Tesla technology and superiority.
E - DAY: A "Electromagnetic Pearl Harbor 'in Manhattan
Perhaps
the next "Pearl Harbor" can not come from the flash of a nuclear
explosion or the outbreak of an Ebola pandemic or a genetically modified
organism. At most, you might hear a faint click from a distance. Once
everyone mistakenly characterize this sound as "innocent" one thunder
lightning, human civilization will irretrievably broken.
Electric lights, televisions, appliances, computers and phones will not have just come off, would have been completely destroyed. A strong smell of ozone will be emitted from the plastic covering electrical wires and phone lines. Even those devices operated with batteries, smoke, like toasters. The cars will not be able to get started. Anything associated with electricity being completely useless. Within
a moment people will discover that they have turned back two centuries,
when the only electricity was bright lightning in the night sky ....
No this is not some imaginary doomsday scenario.
Contrary is a realistic assessment of the damage the Pentagon believes
could cause the use by terrorists of an electromagnetic bomb that will
explode over a skyscraper in Manhattan. Within
milliseconds, the heart of New York, a metropolis of global capitalism,
it has returned to the pre-industrial era, as everything had
electricity connection would be destroyed irreversibly. The damages would be the order of tens of billions of dollars. The terrorists would have dealt a mortal blow to the U.S. economy with zero casualties.
The previous scenario described in detail by Jim Wilson, in an article published in Popular Mechanics magazine in September 2001, just days after the terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York. The
U.S., which first incorporated in their arsenal electromagnetic weapons
(in 2002), now living in fear of an electromagnetic attack. In the years to come might live a "Electromagnetic Hiroshima" that will usher in a new era of terror.
