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As Washington Hosts World Leaders at the Nuclear Security Summit ...



I asked Dr. Paul Bracken, author of the tour de force book, The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger and New Power Politics, for a comment. He replied:

 

 

The pace of military technology has reached a level not seen since the cold war in the 1950s.  Drones, cyber-war, targeted killings, anti-satellites weapons, hypersonic missiles are coming into the forces not just of the United States but of many countries.  Add to this atomic weapons, and soon, hydrogen bombs for India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea.  We are entering a new world of technology, yet the old political order of nation states remains essentially unchanged.  The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit shows the growing tension of a political order that is out of phase with technology advances.  Something has to give, and I don't think it's going to come from a slowdown in technology.

 

 

Scroll down for video of Dr. Bracken speaking to the North Korean missile program, STEM, emerging technologies and other key topics in security.

The Games People Play

We are a cyberspatial culture.  We work on mobile devices.   We shop online.  We navigate by GPS and kids today view Cyberchase on PBS before Sesame Street.  Along with this way of life comes challenges to it.  Threats to our cyberspatial existence are real and varied.  Some are a nuisance like a hacked email account and others are detrimental like the downing of a power grid.  Fortunately, an entire industry is developing to protect our devices, systems and data and one entrepreneur in particular has a particularly clever and culture-friendly approach.  Marc Groz is CEO of CyberXplore and I was delighted to interview him to learn more about the sources of some breaches and his firm’s remedy.

 

 To host Marc Groz, call Lisa Bernard at (203) 293-4741 or email LisaBernard@SecuritySpeak.net.