Hacking the bomb : cyber threats and nuclear weapons /

Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyber attack? We may be standing at the edge of a major technological challenge to global nuclear order. The increasing sophistication of hacking and cyber weapons, information warfare capabilities and other dynamics of the cyber age are challenging the management, saf...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Futter, Andrew, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : war games redux?
  • The nature of the challenge
  • What exactly do we mean by cyber?
  • How and why are nuclear systems vulnerable or at risk?
  • What might hackers do to nuclear systems?
  • Stealing nuclear secrets
  • Could cyber-attacks lead to nuclear use or stop nuclear systems from working?
  • The cyber-nuclear nexus at the strategic level
  • Nuclear weapons, attribution and cyber deterrence
  • Nuclear stability, crisis management, and a cyber-nuclear security dilemma
  • Challenges for our cyber-nuclear future
  • Nuclear weapons modernisation and the future computerised global nuclear environment
  • Conclusion : managing our cyber-nuclear future.