Articles by Ted McKenna, Journal of Electronic Defense

Flash in the Plan

Directed-energy weapons remain more experimental than available.
The detonation by the United States of a nuclear warhead 30,000 feet above Johnston Atoll in July 1962 lit up the night sky above the Hawaiian Islands, 800 miles away. It also created a power surge that shut down the streetlights and phone system of Oahu as well as...
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