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E-bomb
By Baker Jeff | April 30, 2008
STORY ART BY JEFF BAKER
In this Dr. Strange love world of pushbutton warfare, the Electronic Bomb, or “E-bomb,” is the latest weapon of choice, An e-bomb is an electronic magnetic pulse device delivered to it’s target in payloads of magnetic strips, generating an electromagnetic fields intense enough to knock out electronic equipment and devices of all kinds. dropped from a bomb-bay at 10,000 feet, an e-bomb with high-power microwave capability can knock out hard drives, database, TV and radio transmitters for good. They can turn the most modernized industrial state into a Taliban-like society. No blood. No dead. No cell phones and no modems. According to insiders, E-bombs were used by the U.S. in Afghanistan to disrupt al-Qaeda communications and Osama bin Laden’s ability to talk to his field commanders on their satellite phones. Of course. “when you are up against a foe living in shit and fighting with spears,” says a former member of the U.S. special Operations Command,” there are limits to all this high-tech wizardry. Technology helps, but these wars need to be fought with knifes and blood.” Anit-terror experts must also contend with the possibility that E-bomb technology could get into the wrong hands and wreck a different kind of havoc altogether than that of September 11. while most metropolitan areas in the U.S. have taken preparatory measures for further terrorists attacks. E-bomb countermeasures are rarely discussed. “We control much of the world’s news and information. we have the stock market here, two of the busiest airports and a subway system that ferries millions each hour,” says a former high-ranking officer in the NYPD’s Special Operations Division. “This city is one large fuse box that in a zap can be brought back to the Dark Ages.” -Samuel M. Katz
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