Jan 2019 update: Authoritative EMP engineering info

**Bruce in WV** · 03-24-17, 18:03

JIC you haven't seen these unclassified USG docs available on the internet and want to read up:

Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Protection and Restoration Guidelines for Equipment and Facilities, with Appendices A-C, v1.0, Dec 22, 2016

High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) Protection for Ground-Based C4I Facilities Performing Critical Time Urgent Missions, DOD MIL-STD-188-125-1, 17Jul1998

http://futurescience.com/emp/MIL-STD-188-125-1.pdf

https://www.empcenter.org/storage/DH...ies%20Ver1.pdf

**Outlander Systems** · 08-10-17, 09:23

Here's another decent read:

http://www.eiscouncil.com/App_Data/U...2bb2a56fc6.pdf

**Evel Baldgui** · 08-10-17, 11:58

Very far from my area of expertise, but recall reading a paper sometime ago (?Los Alamos lab abstract perhaps) that the EMP threat is not as malignant as its made out to be...Will research and re-post later.

**Bruce in WV** · 11-20-18, 05:46

Latest authoritative study from DHS: STRATEGY FOR PROTECTING AND PREPARING THE HOMELAND AGAINST THREATS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE AND GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCES, Oct 9, 2018.

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/fi...-Embargoed.pdf

**Bruce in WV** · 12-01-18, 18:29

Here’s a conference paper from the DOD on EMP-related policy issues based on estimated impacts. Very serious discussion by knowledgeaBle commentators.

https://media.defense.gov/2018/Nov/2...TASK_FORCE.PDF

**Straight Shooter** · 12-08-18, 04:54

Originally Posted by Bruce in WV

Here’s a conference paper from the DOD on EMP-related policy issues based on estimated impacts. Very serious discussion by knowledgeaBle commentators.

https://media.defense.gov/2018/Nov/2...TASK_FORCE.PDF

VERY disturbing. I guess ONE SECOND AFTER was right all along.

**Moose-Knuckle** · 12-09-18, 05:57

Originally Posted by Bruce in WV

Here’s a conference paper from the DOD on EMP-related policy issues based on estimated impacts. Very serious discussion by knowledgeaBle commentators.

https://media.defense.gov/2018/Nov/2...TASK_FORCE.PDF

Yet there are still plenty of people who down play the threat that GMD's/CME's/HEMP's/etc. pose to are antiquated power grid.

**Bruce in WV** · 05-07-19, 09:54

Just when you thought you understood the problem...an article from 'Wired' arrives with the message that the grid might survive EMP "just fine".

FTA:"The study, by the Electric Power Research Institute, a utility-funded research organization, finds that existing technology can protect various components of the electric grid to buffer it from the effects of solar flares, lightning strikes, and an EMP from a nuclear blast all at the same time: a three-for-one surge protector."

https://www.wired.com/story/the-grid...lse-just-fine/