Author: Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Str
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: developing, options, policy, strategies, informing, workshop, deterring, cyberattacks, proceedings
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2010-09-30
List price: $78.50
ISBN-10: 0309160359
ISBN-13: 9780309160353

Book DescriptionIn a world of increasing dependence on information technology, the prevention of cyberattacks on a nation’s important computer and communications systems and networks is a problem that looms large. Given the demonstrated limitations of passive cybersecurity defense measures, it is natural to consider the possibility that deterrence might play a useful role in preventing cyberattacks against the United States and its vital interests. At the request of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Research Council undertook a two-phase project aimed to f

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: democracy, deterring
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1992-04-06
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0374523495
ISBN-13: 9780374523497

From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern bloc have left the United States unchallenged as the preeminent military power, but American economic might has declined drastically in the face of competition, first from Germany and Japan ad more recently from newly prosperous countries elsewhere. In Deterring Democracy, the impassioned dissident intellectual Noam Chomsky points to the potentially catastrophic consequences of thi