Reading One Second After, and the subsequent novels was very eye opening. Granted it was fiction, but the scenarios he paints are really too feasible.
And in the last novel, he addresses how that the government had warning of the EMPs and evacuated certain, select government players, that were, IMO the equivalent of the DS. The subversive, elite class who only looked out for themselves and wanted to be in power after they got done destroying this country.
In the event of a nuclear war that the deep state started, should deep state criminals be allowed to escape to safe nuclear bunkers?