In a new article for the Heinrich Böll Foundation, ELN Policy Fellow Julia Berghofer discusses the threat to nuclear weapons systems coming from cyber attacks. Although this is still a widely underestimated challenge, potential vulnerabilities in the supply chain and within the system itself are cause for serious concern; particularly as these systems tend to get ever more complex over time and thus more vulnerable to cyber interference (German only).
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| 29 January 2019
Julia Berghofer on nuclear weapons and cyber risks for Heinrich Böll Foundation
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