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ATLAS-I
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thumb|A Boeing B-52 strategic bomber being prepared for EMP testing at Trestle in 1982.
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- EMP generator
- Trestle structure
- Wedge building
- Current status
- See also
- References
thumb|A Boeing B-52 strategic bomber being prepared for EMP testing at Trestle in 1982.
ATLAS-I (Air Force Weapons Lab Transmission-Line Aircraft Simulator), better known as Trestle, was a unique electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generation and testing apparatus built between 1972 and 1980 during the Cold War at Sandia National Laboratories near Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ATLAS-I” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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