I would be very uncomfortable about giving the rest of the world a lets develop EMP urge. Nobody is more vunerable to EMP than the US.
I have several boxes of tubes sitting around that would suddenly be worth big $.
Nobody is more vunerable to EMP than the US. Radiation and EMP resistant chips, memory, processors, Gate arrays, etc have been available since the late 80s in the good old USA. Till now, the military been the best customer.