Porting a Fortran EMP Simulation for Henry Newton
Sometime around 2016, a guy named Henry Newton started showing up to our local meetup in New Orleans. He had a pretty interesting career and some cool stories. The reason he came out, I think other than just talking with some like minded people, was he wanted to revive an old project he worked on. The way he told it, he had some Fortran code from the 70s for simulating EMP attacks. He was interested in porting it to a modern language and studying how it could impact the electrical grid. I found …