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Here's congressional testimony on the topic from a top Pentagon Weaponeer named Lowell Wood, who I can personally assure you is well credentialed in this area.

https://spp.fas.org/starwars/congress/1999_h/99-10-07wood.ht...

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Note that this testimony is a persuasive presentation, an effort to persuade congress to allocate additional spending for EMP protection. Mr. Wood may indeed be qualified to speak on the subject, but this aspect necessarily colors his speech. It's not like there's a shortage of cases of decently qualified people exaggerating the risks of something in order to get more funding and status for themselves and their pet programs.

What I'd really like is hard data on what is or is not actually vulnerable to these hazards and to what extent, based on hard proof rather than fear-mongering by interested parties, which this doesn't get us any further towards.

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