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(29,876 posts) Sun Sep 9, 2012, 02:52 PM Sep 2012

Israel Could Send Iran ‘Back To The Stone Age’ With Electromagnetic Bomb [View all]

srael could destroy Iran’s electric network with a specially designed electromagnetic bomb in the event of a military conflict between the countries, The Sunday Times reported on Sunday.

An electromagnetic bomb of this sort would be detonated above the ground, creating an electromagnetic pulse that would “disrupt all the technological devices working on the ground,” an American expert was quoted as saying to the London paper.

The use of the new technology by Israel was brought up in discussions regarding a possible attack on Tehran’s nuclear facilities, the report claimed. Such a move would send Iran “back to the stone age,” the British paper said.

This kind of bomb would operate based on the nonlethal technology of gamma rays, the report explained. The outburst of energy would “fry” electric devices and currents around the source of the explosion.

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Israel Could Send Iran ‘Back To The Stone Age’ With Electromagnetic Bomb [View all] Purveyor Sep 2012 OP

Would that be considered a weapon of mass destruction? A war crime? Comrade Grumpy Sep 2012 #1

Indeed, it would. longship Sep 2012 #3

Nukes do generate an EMP pulse, but lots of other things do too bhikkhu Sep 2012 #5

What kook would want to start a nuclear war? longship Sep 2012 #15

A large EMP would fry everything Warpy Sep 2012 #31

The U.S. did test in the 1960s. Several bombs were exploded in near space... GreenStormCloud Sep 2012 #44

At high altitude no people would be directly killed, but lots of equipment destroyed. GreenStormCloud Sep 2012 #43

Does Israel have no regard for other human beings? nt nanabugg Sep 2012 #2

Cute euphemism for a neutron bomb; a nuclear weapon Xipe Totec Sep 2012 #4

Are all EMP devices nuclear in nature? GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #23

Not all Confusious Sep 2012 #32

Thanks! That would be one irritated city block! GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #34

So it's OK for Israel to use Nukes Progressive dog Sep 2012 #6

I laughed at that too Confusious Sep 2012 #35

Oh good grief. COULD! aquart Sep 2012 #7

Right. I'm guessing the Times of Israel isn't as anti-Semitic as you think they are. DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2012 #9

Actually, it and many of its readers would fall under a standard rubric of antisemitism. Scootaloo Sep 2012 #17

What you describe doesn't some like anti-semitism to me. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2012 #33

I love to read Science Fiction in the news paper nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #8

The EMP of the Starfish Prime nuclear test Bosonic Sep 2012 #10

Critical words, NUCLEAR TEST nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #19

That was 1962 - they can't do that sort of thing anymore bhikkhu Sep 2012 #27

This electromagnetic pulse, so I've read, is the reason the USSR stayed with tubes instead of going byeya Sep 2012 #11

I remember the old joke about the USSR proudly announcing it had created... Comrade Grumpy Sep 2012 #13

Tubes are more or less immune to EMP hifiguy Sep 2012 #16

Thanks for the post. It's reassuring to know that I remembered something correctly. byeya Sep 2012 #18

Do you mean the.. lexx21 Sep 2012 #24

That's the tube hifiguy Sep 2012 #36

I agree lexx21 Sep 2012 #40

Since the USA has 30 or more military bases on either side of Iran, wouldn't our byeya Sep 2012 #12

Nonlethal gamma radiation displays similar cytoplasmic rearrangements as 12(S)-HETE. GeorgeGist Sep 2012 #14

Iran could do the same in return... JackRiddler Sep 2012 #20

And here is where the science fiction comes in nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #22

"non-lethal gama rays"..... lexx21 Sep 2012 #21

A little research brings up significant problems with EMP bombs - bhikkhu Sep 2012 #25

Wasn't this a James Bond movie? Initech Sep 2012 #26

Or a TV series? Indpndnt Sep 2012 #28

Yuo, and that one makes zero sense as well nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #29

You would have to rack up the dead and dying in all the hospitals. Most life support devices 2on2u Sep 2012 #30

still purveying this bullshit, eh? cali Sep 2012 #37

And I will continue to post 'this ridiculous speculation' as long as this shit keeps coming out of Purveyor Sep 2012 #38

But this did not "come out of Israel" did it? hack89 Sep 2012 #42

Unbelievable Marrah_G Sep 2012 #39

i always wanted sort of an emp gun i could mount on my car dembotoz Sep 2012 #41