Cyber Brief: Cybersecurity and Deterrence
The January 2018 publication of a draft of the Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) has raised questions about modern concepts of deterrence and the potential link between cyber and nuclear weapons. Today’s posting provides both the draft and final versions of the NPR, and for context adds a number of related studies on deterrence in the current cyber environment. The draft suggests that a cyberattack specifically on U.S.