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1) Cyber War
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It has been described as the Hiroshima of cyber war, the moment where the fevered imaginations of science fiction finally came true. A computer worm called Stuxnet disrupted what the west claimed to be Iran's top-secret plans to build a nuclear bomb. Ben Hammersley travels to LA, Berlin and London to find out what impact Stuxnet has had on the future of warfare.
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The American edge in digital technologies-upon which our financial, communications, and defense systems are built, and on which they depend-may also represent a serious American Achilles' heel. This technological prowess also provides one great big and sprawling target to enemies determined to discover the choke points that can cripple us in a time of war. It's alarming to contemplate-but possibly, also, alarmist? In this debate, the team arguing...
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Consider these facts from Carl Zimmer's book, "A Planet of Viruses": If you put all the viruses in the ocean on a scale, they would equal the weight of 75 million blue whales. And if you lined up all those viruses end to end, "they would stretch out past the nearest 60 galaxies." In 17th-century England, Zimmer writes, cures for the rhinovirus, or the common cold, included a blend of gunpowder, eggs, fried cow dung, and suet. Today, he says, doctors...