[LINK] Electromagnetic pulse artillery shell

[Chris Johnson]

Writers need to think a little further on the efects of induced failure
of electronic systems.

David <dlochrin at key.net.au> wrote:
> For example, if all the traffic lights in a CBD are networked back to a central control system the traffic throughput might be amazing, but nothing would move if the system failed.  Or it was hacked.

Sorry, this is a furphy: traffic can certainly move with no trafic
lights operating. Remember the policeman on point duty? a person can
easily control traffic, at the rate of one person per normal
intersection, with almost no training.
Worse than having inoperative lights would be hacked lights which
induced collisions, jamming the intersections, by showing random signals
or showing green in all directions. That is not part of the requirements
for this weapon.

-- 
Chris Johnson, Honorary AsPro ANU