Although for over a quarter century an increasing number of states have acquired and used cyber capabilities, and cyberspace has become an increasingly important arena for international security interaction, far too many national intelligence and defense scholars, practitioners, and policymakers have sidestepped its vital role, either claiming that the technical barriers to entry are too…
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H-Diplo | RJISSF Policy Roundtable III-4 on The Practices and Politics of Cybersecurity Expertise
Experts play pervasive and multifarious roles in shaping the international order. A sophisticated body of literature within international relations explores how experts shape governmental and international policy—including their work in framing problems, gathering and interpreting ambiguous evidence, and proposing policy solutions.[1] Separately, scholars whose work is informed by the field of science and technology studies…
Review Essay 43 on Hacking the Bomb: Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
Hacking the Bomb begins its narrative with WarGames—a 1980s sci-fi movie about a teenager who inadvertently almost starts nuclear war by hacking into a nuclear control program within a U.S. computer. This is a common vignette within the cyber literature (see, for example, the introductions of Fred Kaplan’s Dark Territory[2] as well as “Thermonuclear War”[3])…