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ts Demon. Ran- dom House. New York. NY. 1998. M. Mitchell Waldrop. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the
rk- able a world in which science and technology—born as quantum mechan- ics and grown to be nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs; or perhaps just a rental truck containing an amateur's fully functional fission bomb)—make this single stroke distressingly possible. The failure
's Demon. Ran- dom House. New York. NY. 1998. M. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the
rk- able a world in which science and technology—born as quantum mechan- ics and grown to be nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs; or perhaps just a rental truck containing an amateur's fully functional fission bomb)—make this single stroke distressingly possible. The failure
lican senators, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell; Sen. Mark Kirk (the Republican co-spo
e U.S. (much less so against, say, the Taliban or Hamas). EMP weapons fired from lower-altitude platforms or via land-based missile systems (e.g., ICBMs) are vulnerable to intercepts or preemptive strikes. Satellite-mounted EMP weapons, on the other hand, would be beyond the reach of most countries,
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