Des Browne says there can be no guarantee that UK will contain a reliable nuclear deterrent unless it can be wholly protected from cyber-attacks Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system may turn out to be obsolete unless David Cameron can offer assurances that it is wholly protected from cyber-attacks by a hostile state,the former defence secretary Des Browne has said. As Cameron save the replacement of Trident at the heart of the defence review, Browne told the Guardian there could be no guarantee of a reliable deterrent without an “finish-to-finish” assessment of the cyber-threat to the system.
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Source: theguardian.com