IRRESISTABLE

I recall that after Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the U.S. didn't immediately ramp up the production of nuclear weapons although that did come about a few years later.  The U.S. has taken a different approach to Internet spying, in part because of our unquestioned edge over other countries, as the AP points out:

In 'golden age' of surveillance, US has big edge
Raphael Satter, Associated Press 9 hours ago
LONDON (AP) --
But experts in the field say that Silicon Valley has made America a surveillance superpower, allowing its spies access to massive mountains of data being collected by the world's leading communications, social media, and online storage companies. That's on top of the United States' fiber optic infrastructure — responsible for just under a third of the world's international Internet capacity, according to telecom research firm TeleGeography — which allows it to act as a global postmaster, complete with the ability to peek at a big chunk of the world's messages in transit.

"The sheer power of the U.S. infrastructure is that quite often data would be routed though the U.S. even if it didn't make geographical sense," Joss Wright, a researcher with the Oxford Internet Institute, said in a telephone interview. "The current status quo is a huge benefit to the U.S."

Whatever the case, the pool of information in American hands is vast. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. accounts for more than 90 percent of the world's desktop computer operating systems, according to one industry estimate. Mountain View, California-based Google Inc. carries two-thirds of the world's online search traffic, analysts say. Menlo Park, California-based Facebook Inc. has some 900 million users — a figure that accounts for a third of the world's estimated 2.7 billion Internet-goers.