Undersea cables and the future of submarine competition
By Bryan Clark | July 3, 2016
Today, nearly all voice and Internet traffic, including essential military and financial transmissions, travels through undersea fiber-optic cables. Even temporary damage to these lines of communications can have serious consequences, which is why their future security depends on how well nations understand and exploit the next wave of submarine technology.
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Issue: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 72 Issue 4
Keywords: cyber security, undersea cables
Topics: Uncategorized
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Bryan Clark is a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, in Washington.... Read More
