PROCEEDINGS - Cyber Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction A

While the United Nations lethal effects, whereas the lethality of cyber weapons remains Conference on Disarmament “[r]eaffirms that effective mea- largely unproved—a 2020 ransomware attack on a German sures should be taken to prevent the emergence of new types hospital resulted in what may be the first confirmed fatality of weapons of mass destruction,” it has never added a new due to a cyber atta. [...] transportation services, the electrical grid, water and WMD to include cyber weapons would make it exceedingly wastewater systems, public health, and food and pharma- difficult to limit the scale and scope of WMD threats the U. [...] The attention to cyber threats While in and of themselves, cyber weapons are not in the 2018 U. [...] The mission of the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction is to prepare U. [...] The opinions, conclusions, and Threats: Priorities for Cybersecurity at Nuclear Facilities (Washington, DC: Nuclear recommendations expressed or implied within are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Defense or any other agency of the Threat Initiative, December 2016), available at < Federal Government.