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ATLAS-I
Sign in to saveAlso known as Trestle, Air Force Weapons Lab Transmission-Line Aircraft Simulator, TRESTLE
thumb|A Boeing B-52 strategic bomber being prepared for EMP testing at Trestle in 1982.
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- laboratory
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- New Mexico
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- TRESTLE EMP simulator - B1B Bomber - Kirtland Air Force Base - 1989.jpeg
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- EMP generator
- Trestle structure
- Wedge building
- Current status
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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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