In many ways, the post-Cold Warperiod resembles the interwar interregnum, during which military powers experimented with new technologies, organizations, and doctrine.
The reason: to start enlarging the 16-nation defense alliance and to discuss reorganizing the alliance's military structure to take into account the new challenges of the post-Cold Warperiod.
But as nuclear and missile technology has proliferated in the post-Cold Warperiod, and more technologically primitive countries get their hands on missiles and limited nuclear capabilities, the threat of an EMP attack as become far more acute.