# Will engines not work at the approach of a nuclear bomb?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 30, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-engines-not-work-at-the-approach-of-a-nuclear-bomb/435540 "2008-01-30T01:28:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-engines-not-work-at-the-approach-of-a-nuclear-bomb/435540/21 "2008-01-30T21:54:45Z")

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> saboteurs can build a device capable of remotely disrupting computers, automobiles, medical equipment and nearly anything else dependent on electronics, according to a California engineer who demonstrated a homebrew computer death-ray at the InfowarCon '99 conference here Wednesday.

Are they 1920’s style homebrew computer death rays? 😃

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