Defense leaders should assign U.S. Strategic Command the vital task of ensuring nuclear weapons are ready for use in the face of cyber attacks, which continue to outpace the Defense Department's countermeasures, according to a new Defense Science Board report . The recommendation comes with the finding that "most of the systems" making up the nuclear deterrent were never assessed in their totality against a highly sophisticated cyber attack, states the report. The science board task force that compiled the...
