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73.Anon.52 wrote: if memory serves "neutron" bombs were mainly used for the EMP effect... though idr how exactly they avoid also emitting fatal radiation on the target. They didn't. One of their potential uses was against armor columns via high penetration radiation.

They don't seem to have been intended for EMP use, so much as use nuclear physics to impair incoming nuclear warheads from properly detonating at full yeild. They'd have potentially been used as nuclear tipped interceptor missiles meant to hit nukes before they gotr close enought to detonatoe at a useful range.