I believe that tax reform should include an individual deduction for hardening personal assets against EMP and full corporate and pass-through expensing for hardening business assets and infrastructure against EMP, including transmission lines, transformers, etc.
Russia has full-underground resources for certain cities
Complete food, housing, medical supplies, water, sanitation and miscellaneous supplies for an entire city population.
My local "Civil Defense " structure has been turned into a municipal paper record storage dump 10 years ago,
as all civil defense materials have expired and been thrown out.
I know ,... because I checked it out.
Every large city in America is the source of death and disease if the grid is down for a year. The starving and diseased will not remain in the cities, they will ‘migrate’ to take over what they can forage in the burbs. Where is 90% of the US population? In and around cities, major cities. ... 90% may be a low estimate, IMHO.