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[{"user_id": 11626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 42480, "date_created": 1311326168.8256979, "message": "Beijing develops pulse weapons\r\nBlasts thwart all electronics\r\nWashington Times\r\nJuly 21, 2011\r\n\r\nChina's military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made public on Thursday.\r\n\r\nPortions of a National Ground Intelligence Center study on the lethal effects of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons revealed that the arms are part of China\u2019s so-called \u201cassassin\u2019s mace\u201d arsenal - weapons that allow a technologically inferior China to defeat U.S. military forces.\r\n\r\nEMP weapons mimic the gamma-ray pulse caused by a nuclear blast that knocks out all electronics, including computers and automobiles, over wide areas. The phenomenon was discovered in 1962 after an aboveground nuclear test in the Pacific disabled electronics in Hawaii.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/21/beijing-develops-radiation-weapons", "group_id": 3920, "id": 1696822}]