“EMP has become a cottage industry. There’s money to be made by scaring people in Washington. … Is EMP possible? Yes, it is. Do we need to be careful? Yes, we do.” But “it’s extraordinarily unlikely.” —Stephen Younger, former director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Defense Threat Reduction Agency

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A few days later, the kids from MATINEE wonder what's going on in their Key West, Florida neighborhood.

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Here is a still photograph of jubilant onlookers at Lop Nor shortly after the successful 1964 detonation.

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can't tell you what but i did fix it

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Very cool stuff, though my instinct is that the sword there looks like a bearing sword - a oversized sword used as a ceremonial object and never intended for use in a fight. Still really cool (but important not to let bearing swords color our sense of what real battlefield weapons were like).

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