REDSTONE ARESENAL, Ala., June 13, 2011 -- While working on Redstone Arsenal, Ala., college students are learning that microwaves are not for just cooking food. A group of students and professors from ...

April 23, 2009 High-power microwave (HPM) bombs that use an enormous electromagnetic radio pulse to disable computers, electronics, vehicles, guided missiles and communications while leaving people ...

The first Russian explosive device to land on US soil wasn’t delivered by a Russian missile, as Americans feared might happen throughout the Cold War. It was delivered by FedEx. The device, an ...

Explosively formed jets (EFJ) and fragments and self-forging penetrators (SFP) are used for precision strike against targets such as armored vehicles and reinforced structures. Current technology uses ...

Sci-fi tales are full of electromagnetic-pulse devices that blow out every computer from here to Kalamazoo. But US Army researchers are testing a short skinny high-powered microwave bomb that could ...

Weapons experts and techno-thriller fans are familiar with the concept of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) — a supermassive blast of electricity, usually from a nuclear blast high above ground, that ...

Electronics-frying "e-bombs" have been discussed for decades — but rarely, if ever, deployed. Knocking out computers and communications gear with electromagnetic radiation is nice, but commanders ...

Jeffrey Lewis dismisses the use of atomic bombs in space for an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack (13 May, p 24). It is possible, though, to use conventional explosives to create intense EMPs for ...