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<x-rich><fontfamily><param>Courier</param>The EMP worries began after a high altitude - atmospheric - nuke test in the early 60's over the Pacific messed up electrical systems almost 1000 miles away in Hawaii. The pulse induces something like 50,000+ volts per meter of wire - granted this would be at milliamperes of current. But, if you have circuitry that runs on millivolts - like transistors - this voltage induced into the short leads and wires leading to the transistor would be enough to fry 'em. The military got a little nervous back in the '70's when a Russian defected to Japan using a MIG 25 as his exit visa. Everyone laughed when they took apart the plane and found no transistors, only newer type vacuum tube technology in a "modern" Mach 2.5+ interceptor -- until they considered the EMP factor. Using vacuum tube technology made the plane almost impervious to the effects of an EMP. The frightening scenario was of Ivan popping off a nuke in space over Western Europe to neutralize our fighters and other high-tech systems - including, I suppose, anything with electronic fuel injection. You could always park your FI car in a perfectly shielded and grounded metal box a la Faraday. Hedge </fontfamily> On Saturday, Aug 23, 2003, at 14:28 US/Eastern, Russ wolfe wrote: <excerpt>On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 12:16, Fiesta Cranberry wrote: <excerpt> The book says that the EMP permanently fries electronic circuits, computer chips, etc. Apocalyptic fiction is my favorite genre :^) Lori </excerpt>Are you Mad Max in disguise??? :) There was an air cooled VW in Mad Max. The auto-giro was VW powered. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org </excerpt> </x-rich>