North Korea is developing an electromagnetic pulse bomb, or EMP bomb, that emits an electromagnetic field upon explosion and damages nearby electronic devices, a South Korean military source has revealed. The source said North Korea has been working on the EMP bomb since the mid-1990s, with help from Russian scientists, adding that the weapon may be near completion. When a nuclear explosion occurs at high altitude, the EMP signal it produces will cover the wide geographic region within the line of sight of the detonation, according to the 2008 report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack. For example, a nuclear explosion at an altitude of 100 kilometers would expose 4 million square kilometers, about 1.5 million square miles, of Earth surface beneath the burst to a range of EMP field intensities.LEARN MORE
North Korea Developing EMP Bomb, Military Source Warns
