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From: jlg@lanl.ARPA
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Subject: Re: EMP
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 16:38:53 EST
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> 	The airforce may test for EMP, but I don't think that they can mimic
> the incredible potentials that would exist from and actual EMP, so the
> testing can't make it perfect or guarentee it, but just give an accurate
> probability of survival/failure.

The Airforce can't mimic EMP potentials (they try real hard, you should
see some of the capacitors), but someone can - mother nature.  A lightning
strike generates potentials which in some cases can be bigger the the
expected EMP potentials on an object as small as a plane.  Unfortunately,
lightning is unpredictable so it's hard to get good data from such strikes.
People have tried though.

J. Giles