I recently saw a comment chain about nuclear bombs, and that led me to thinking about this. Say there is a nuclear explosion in the downtown of my US city. I survive relatively fine, but obviously the main part of the city has been destroyed, while major zones extending from the center were also badly damaged. What would be a good response to (a) survive and (b) help out the recovery effort?
However… Just think about how many chips are currently just sitting around… Between scrapping and searching you would likely be just fine for a few decades.
EMP would fry most of them though.