Dubious claim of week: Air Force’s “EMP missile” could disable N. Korean ICBMs

Frying computers like a CHAMP? (credit: Boeing) On Monday, NBC Nightly News broadcast a report claiming that White House officials had discussed using an experimental weapon to disrupt or disable a North Korean missile launch. The weapon in question, the product of the US Air Force’s Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP), uses bursts […]