“The UK needs to defend itself against an electromagnetic pulse-based ‘E-bomb’ that could knock out all electronic systems, the defence secretary will say today.
Philip Hammond will tell a security conference in London that traditional defences based on “infantry or jet planes” would not be enough to protect the country from such an attack, and that Britain needs to spend money on building its digital defences.”
(Source: MoD to warn of E-bomb attack – ComputerworldUK.com.)