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Can the power grid survive a cyberattack?

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageSitting duck?Jeff Wallace/flickr, CC BY-NC

It’s very hard to overstate how important the US power grid is to American society and its economy. Every critical infrastructure, from communications to water, is built on it and every important business function from banking to milking cows is completely dependent on it.

And the dependence on the...

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The failed effort to ban the ultimate weapon of mass destruction

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imageA nuclear test explosion from April 1954.File photo/Reuters

A flawed nuclear weapons treaty has finally come unstuck at the United Nations.

For decades, non-nuclear armed states have been asking the nuclear armed states (primarily the US, Russia, Britain, France and China – referred to as the NPT-P5 - but also India, Pakistan, Israel and North...

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