On 06 August, 1997 11:49 AM, David Lerman [SMTP:mdlerma2@gsbpop.uchicago.edu] 
wrote:

 (funny, I thought the military's computers also used silicon chips)

It's called pulse-hardening. It's the same technology used to protect probes 
from the harsh enviroment of Jupiter's magnetosphere.

  Wrong.  EMP can cause a multi-million peak transient voltage with a few
amps behind it to come down your power line, which will take out a lot of
equipment.

ONLY IF they're connected to the power line when the surge hits.

Usually, if you're close enough
to worry about source region EMP, you are also worrying about the flash,
blast, and radiation .

So I suppose if you're protected against those, you're safe against EMP right?