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EMP and electronic ignitions (Science News May 30th 1981 Vol. 119, No.22 pg 344)
       Several persons attending electromagnetic-pulse simulation tests had
trouble getting home afterward.  Their cars wouldn't start.  "And  this kept
happening every day," explains James Kerr of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, but only to some of the newest cars.  It now appears that EMP's
knocked out the solid-state controls in the vehicles' distributor systems.
The recurring accidents aroused enough concern to win Kerr's office full air
force funding for a study of the problem.  Results are expected in by early next
year, Kerr says, but whether they will be classified [secret], I can't say."
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Are there any good publications describing the effects of EMP or the current
research?
--Bill
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