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Lawfare Archive: Nicole Perlroth on the Cyberweapons Arms Race

The Lawfare Podcast

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Is Mutually Sure Destroyment Really Dangerous?

The idea of "mutually sure destruction" is dangerous in the cyber world, he says. In nuclear weapons you have to have fissile material and a laptop; there's no such barrier for cyber tools. Cyber attacks can be easily discovered by other countries that may then use them against U.S. systems or target its own people with retrofitted software.

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