Dr. Herbert Lin, of Stanford University, spoke recently on Ploughshares Fund’s Press the Button program about the dangerous intersection of cyberattacks and nuclear weapons. Hacking the Bomb (online here) focuses on the huge Russian incursion into thousands of federal and private networks, including some of the most sensitive, known as Solar Winds. What does this hack tell us about vulnerabilities of our hairtrigger nuclear program? In the first part of the program, you can also hear a chilling discussion about the absence of any reliable safeguards to Presidential use of the nuclear “button” even after events of last week.
