Hoover was trying to get MLK to commit suicide, etc.

And keeping our grandchildren alive by scrabbling for any available food and carrying pails of drinking water home (there are rivers several hundred yards to perhaps a quarter mile away, both all uphill coming back but the latter much more gradual) after a cyber attack seems a lot more doable than trying to do the same through a nuclear winter. (The first would allow people to hope for relief to arrive from outside zones of devastation also.) I think I call that an "advance"...