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title: 'Keynote:Hacking the Bomb - Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons'
tags: [CODEBLUE, CODEBLUE2019]

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Keynote:Hacking the Bomb - Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
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- **Date:** Oct.29th 9:30 - 10:15
- **Speaker:** Andrew_Futter
- **Category:** Keynote - Main Track

> Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyber-attack?  Could terrorists launch a nuclear weapon through hacking?  Are we standing at the edge of a major technological challenge to global nuclear order?  Andrew Futter will provide a comprehensive assessment of the worrying and little-understood cyber challenge to nuclear weapons and explain how the many dynamics we label as “cyber” will impact the way that the world thinks about and manages the bomb.  The talk will cut through the hype surrounding the cyber phenomenon and provide a framework through which to understand and proactively address the implications of the emerging cyber-nuclear nexus.  It does this by tracing the cyber challenge right across the nuclear weapons enterprise, explains the important differences between types of cyber threats, and unpacks how cyber capabilities will impact strategic thinking, nuclear balances, deterrence, and crisis management.  He will make the case for restraint in the cyber realm when it comes to nuclear weapons given the considerable risks of commingling weapons of mass disruption with weapons of mass destruction, and argues against establishing a dangerous norm of "hacking the bomb." 
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###### tags: `CODEBLUE2019`,`CODEBLUE`