In the 1987 science fiction animated series Spiral Zone episode "Back to the Stone Age", Overlord and his Black Widows used an EMP device to disable the Zone Riders' advanced weapons. Such a scenario is also presented in the programme Threads, again dealing with a fictional Soviet nuclear attack on Britain. This scenario accurately conforms to the Cold War nuclear attack scenarios as understood by military officials and nuclear weapons designers (although post-Cold War scenarios are generally much different). In the 1983 made-for-television motion picture, The Day After, the fictional Soviet nuclear attack on civilian targets begins with a nuclear EMP attack in order to disable as much of the United States' retaliatory capability as possible. In the 1965 episode "Terror in New York City", fourth in the first series of Thunderbirds TV shows, Scott Tracy flies Thunderbird 1 over a vehicle containing an illicit video tape of Thunderbird 2 and uses a non-nuclear EMP (NNEMP) device to wipe the tape. Lua error in a at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Space Command video is not available to the general public. EMP" so that people who must deal with real EMP would not be confused by motion picture fiction. In addition, the United States Air Force Space Command commissioned science educator Bill Nye to make a video for the Air Force called "Hollywood vs. (See the Nuclear electromagnetic pulse article for direct quotations from the Oak Ridge report.) This problem has become so bad that it was addressed in a report for Oak Ridge National Laboratory by Metatech Corporation. Motion picture and electronic entertainment quite often depicts electromagnetic pulse effects incorrectly.
EMP has been subsequently used in a wide variety of fiction and other aspects of popular culture. By the early 1980s, a number of articles on nuclear electromagnetic pulse (NEMP) in the popular press spread knowledge of the EMP phenomenon into the popular culture. In some tellings of the Frankenstein story, the monster is animated by a lightning strike.Ī non-nuclear EMP (NNEMP) device appeared as early as 1965, in the Thunderbirds TV puppet show. Lightning has long been used as a dramatic device in popular fiction.
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