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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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.