Nominal High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) Waveforms

  • Magazine Article
  • TBMG-34870
Published August 01, 2019 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
Language:
  • English

Even before the Trinity nuclear test in July of 1945, physicists predicted a transient electromagnetic signal would be caused by high-energy photons released from the detonation interacting with the air around the detonation. Predictions of these signals were difficult to make due to the complexity of the physics unleashed by the detonation.