Gingrich’s EMP theory finds skeptics

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during a campaign stop at Insight Technology in Londonderry, N.H. Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola

Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential hopeful, wants you to know that as commander in chief he is ready to confront one of the most nightmarish of doomsday scenarios: a nuclear blast high above the United States that would instantly throw the nation into a dark age.

In debates and speeches, interviews and a popular book, he is ringing alarm bells over what experts call the electromagnetic pulse, or EMP — a poorly understood phenomenon of the nuclear age.

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