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Who invented e-bomb?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

There is technically no such thing as an "E-Bomb." E-bomb refers to the use of a thermonuclear device detonated in the upper atmosphere for the specific purpose of triggering an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that will short circuit all solid state circuitry that is not properly shielded.

The EMP effect was first predicted by Enrico Fermi and was recorded in the first Trinity detonation in July 1945. With Starfish Prime, July 1962, the third in the series of tests of Operation Fishbowl, the US detonation of a 1.44 megaton device 250 miles above the mid-Pacific determined the full effects of EMP. Effects of the pulse were felt in Hawaii, just under a thousand miles away.

To name a single inventor of EMP is not possible. No one "invented" it. EMP was discovered however by the scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project. the predictions of Fermi did lead the designers of the test in Alamogordo to properly shield there electronic testing equipment though.

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