Invisible wrote:

> It always amuses me how film writers seem to think that turning an
> electronic device off makes it immune to an EMP... I thought the idea
> was that an EMP will physically fry the thing like a microwave oven
> fries CDs. :-P

I've got it that way too. No matter if you turn it off, the level of
magnetic pulse coming in from say, a megaton nuclear blast will anyway
induce such a level of current in almost any conductor in range that it
will start carrying hundreds, if not thousands of volts?
-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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