>> 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?

Interesting thing: According to Wikipedia [which is never wrong], a 
nuclear explosion only generates an EMP because of the Earth's magnetic 
field. Like, if it was in space, it wouldn't do that...

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