Nuclear blasts trigger an effect called electromagnetic pulse ... they can "catch" this incredibly powerful pulse. This can generate a rogue current of electricity that moves through a modern ...

Current generated in an insulating material such as silica by the electric field of an intense and ultrashort laser pulse provides information about the precise waveform of the pulse that produced it.

That wave of electromagnetic pulse, if strong enough ... transformers — pretty much anything directly connected to a current of electricity. The scope of a such a bomb is simply astounding ...