Nukes not the answer

To the editor:

Officials at the Pentagon have sent to the White House a plan for using nuclear weapons in the face of a devastating cyber attack.

This is total insanity.

First, people capable of crippling our infrastructure via a cyber attack are very likely capable of completely covering their tracks. 

Is the Pentagon so sure that the military will be able to pinpoint exactly who the perpetrators are? 

I doubt it.

Second, what is the Pentagon doing right now to perfect cyber security in the United States? 

We have not gotten an iota of information about any steps in that direction, let alone what is needed: a huge effort similar to the Manhattan Project, dedicated to cyber security rather than the building of a nuclear weapon.

Incinerating untold numbers of innocent human beings and other forms of life, and causing horrific destruction to the environment not only at the site of a nuclear bombing, but potentially all of Earth is not a sane response to a cyber attack. It is boundlessly terrifying.

It is total insanity, and totally evil.

Miriam Helbok

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