Cyber Threats, Nuclear Analogies? Divergent Trajectories in Adapting to New Dual-Use Technologies

Alarm is mounting over large security vulnerabilities produced by the pervasive spread of cyber capabilities into vast realms of socioeconomic activity. To be sure, most cyber threats fall into the category of mischief or normal crime, but some potential cyber attacks—on nuclear power plants or other critical infrastructure or on the financial system, for example—could do enormous harm....

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