chernobyl nuclear power plant, Russia

A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strike could cripple the U.S. electrical grid and other critical infrastructure for months, an expert warned.
Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...
The goal wasn’t to see how much damage the nuclear explosions could do — by the early 1960s the military had enough nuclear weapons and enough understanding of their explosive potential ...