*U*N*U* EMP Weapons or "E-Bombs"These are designed to create strong electro-magnetic pulses designed to fry electronics and electrical equipment. Many e-bomb designs are not nuclear, they use a conventional high-explosive charge in an armature to generate the pulse. These tend to be short range, on the order of hundreds of meters, and they do obey the inverse square law. The defense is enclosing all electrical devices in Faraday cages. It is amusing to note that vacuum tube technology is much less vulnerable to EMP than are transistors. |
Fiber optic cables are immune to EMP, unfortunately they are not shock tolerant. Specifically they have poor shear tolerance. Fiber can withstand a certain amount of flex, but it's resistance to "instantaneous flex" (like you'd see with a conventional missile hit) is not good. Ordinary twisted pair wires will stretch with the displacement from the explosion (assuming a hit close enough to warp the local supports but far enough not to directly break the cables) but are vulnerable to EMP. A sharp strike, bend or flex to fiber optic cable will shatter the individual strands across the grain, and destroy the cable. Conventional nuclear weapons will also produce an EMP if detonated near an atmosphere. They will not create one in the vacuum of space, with no air molecules for Compton Scattering. _____________Nukleární zbraně _______________________ Nukleární zbraně - po dlouhých letech čekání a investic do výzkumu v oblasti zbraní hromadného ničení se konečně podařilo dospět k technologii umožňující výrobu nukleární a emp raket. Velké jaderné zbraně (mezikontinentální střely) jsou technicky značným problémem a materiálně špatně zajištění atomoví vědci spousty jiných států nejsou a ještě dlouho nebudou schopni ani uvažovat o možné výrobě nukleárních zbraní. |