Cyber warfare is considered preferable to nuclear warfare. Reuters/Maxim Shemetov
Quartz: The UK is practicing cyberattacks that could black out Moscow
British defense officials say they have practiced cyber war games that could shut off electricity in Russia’s capital, the Sunday Times (paywall) reports.
The measures are part of a wider range of strategies to hit back at an increasingly assertive Russia—accused of interfering with US elections, cyberattacks on Western targets, and poisoning a former spy on UK soil—without resorting to a full-blown nuclear attack.
“If they sank our aircraft carrier with a nuclear-tipped torpedo, what is our response? There’s nothing between sinking their submarine and dropping a nuclear weapon on northern Kamchatka,” one senior source told the Sunday Times. “This is why cyber is so important; you can go on the offensive and turn off the lights in Moscow to tell them that they are not doing the right things.”
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WNU Editor: The Kremlin has made it very clear in the past that they would view any state sponsored cyber attack on their infrastructure as an act of war. Is this a Kremlin red line? I would say yes. Then again, if the Russian military sinks an aircraft carrier and this is the U.K. response .... I would then say that the Kremlin has gotten off lightly.
