This in turn increases the risk from another area barely known about in the Cold War: cyberattacks, said Camille M. Francois, an expert in the field at Harvard Law School\u2019s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.<\/p>\n
With their high level of automation, \u201cnuclear assets are by their nature extremely vulnerable to cyberattack,\u201d Francois said.<\/p>\n
In addition, she said, policymakers still have something of a \u201c1980s mentality,\u201d focusing on the idea of a lone hacker \u2014 like in the 1983 movie \u201cWarGames\u201d \u2014 and believing that cyberattacks can only come via the Internet. \u201cIt\u2019s not kids anymore, it is states investing very heavily in cyberwarfare. This is the new battlefield, the fifth domain of war,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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