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Article #56EMP and electronic ignitions (Science News May 30th 1981 Vol. 119, No.22 pg 344)
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1981 23:01
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Several persons attending electromagnetic-pulse simulation tests had trouble getting home afterward. Their cars wouldn't start. "And this kept happening every day," explains James Kerr of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but only to some of the newest cars. It now appears that EMP's knocked out the solid-state controls in the vehicles' distributor systems. The recurring accidents aroused enough concern to win Kerr's office full air force funding for a study of the problem. Results are expected in by early next year, Kerr says, but whether they will be classified [secret], I can't say." ================================================================================ Are there any good publications describing the effects of EMP or the current research? --Bill -------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!Daul@OFFICE From: ucbvax!Daul@OFFICE Newsgroups: fa.arms-d Subject: EMP and electronic ignitions (Science News May 30th 1981 Vol. 119, No.22 pg 344) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1981 23:01:16 +0000 Message-ID: <anews.Aucbvax.1615>