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TRESTLE Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator Program Should Be Reevaluated

PSAD-77-159 Published: Nov 04, 1977. Publicly Released: Nov 04, 1977.
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TRESTLE is a special Department of the Air Force facility now under construction originally designed to simulate threat-level, electromagnetic pulse stresses on large aircraft generated by a high-altitude detonation of a nuclear weapon. Program costs have increased by l30 percent, or $34 million.

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