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

| Oct. 16, 2017

Alarm is mounting over large security vulnerabilities produced by the pervasive spread of cyber capabilities into vast realms of socioeconomic activity. Understanding Cyber Conflict: 14 Analogies CoverTo 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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Miller, Steven E. "Cyber Threats, Nuclear Analogies? Divergent Trajectories in Adapting to New Dual-Use Technologies." In Understanding Cyber Conflict: 14 Analogies, Perkovich, George and Ariel E. Levite, eds., Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2017: pp. 161–179

 

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Steven E. Miller

Steven E. Miller

  • Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
  • Member of the Board, Belfer Center
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