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"For I'd think experts would consider the more obvious problem?"

The vaporized people and buildings would, quite honestly, be the least of our worries at that time. A large nuclear attack in any one major US city would overload every hospital in the region. The loss of power would take out most social services. 9-1-1 systems to hospital systems to telecommunication systems etc would all be on emergency, short-term backups. The military's capacity to detect and respond to threats would also be diminished. Wide-scale blackouts would cause massive riots to ensue in short order. Refrigeration would be out, news would be difficult to receive; along with emergency instructions. Citizens would begin looting businesses and homes in search of basic necessities. Logistical operations responsible for getting the right things to the right places (stocking drug stores and supermarkets for instance) would quickly begin to break down. Large-scale regional blackouts lasting more than a few days would start stressing our national infrastructure. Heating/air conditioning, running water, and all the other basic things we take for granted would become unavailable for possibly days or weeks at a time. Folks who depend on medication would have some issues. Schools aren't going to be open, so how do parents go to work? Can they go to work? Is it possible to do their job without electrical power? For many in this day and age, that's a no.

We need to begin looking at ways of isolating failures in the power grid to the greatest extent possible. Large-scale, long-term blackouts are simply very, very bad.

Roscoe Bartlett just happens to have Alliant Technologies and about twenty other EMP shelter/hardening/weapons defense companies inside his district, or very close by in Virginia. Don't think this is anything but returns on campaign contributions. At last analysis, a corporation gets a return of six hundred and twelve dollars for every dollar they spend on campaign contributions when spending more than $100,000.

Sure beats the market or securities investments.