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Pulse bombs, for knocking out IC and transistor based electronics in the area, have generally been expensive and involved use of a nuclear bomb. New techniques using oldstyle equipment could make these items much cheaper, and multifarious uses could be obligated, resulting in, for example, the change of a political party without great expense or too many megadeaths, which annoy the international community.

While such an idea has been mooted almost as long as I can remember, it is said in 'The Register' that present methods are promising. For budding experimenters with an interest in contemporary history, brief proposed construction details here.