Under the tensile loading, the damage of metals in the corrosive medium is the most destructive and harmful. In this study, the stress corrosion cracking behavior of H-charged high-strength steel in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution after electropulsing treatment was investigated. The experimental results from elongation, yield strength, fracture morphology, and polarization curves all demonstrate the positive effect of the pulsed processing, as it reduced the susceptibility of steel to stress corrosion cracking by removing hydrogen by electropulsing. The reduction in hydrogen content of the pulsed high-strength steels was attributed to electromigration and increased system free energy, which drove the hydrogen atoms in the steel to de-trap and reduced the susceptibility to stress corrosion cracking. (C) 2020 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.