The Perfect Weapon

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SOON TO BE AN HBO® DOCUMENTARY. Nicholas Kristof calls it "an important—and deeply sobering—new book about cyberwarfare." David Sanger's *The Perfect Weapon* is the startling inside story of how cyberweapons have transformed geopolitics as profoundly as the atomic bomb. Cheap, deniable, and devastating, cyberwarfare is now the weapon of choice for nations and terrorists alike. From the Bush and Obama administrations' "Olympic Games" attack on Iran's centrifuges to the theft of America's own cyber arsenal and Russia's broad assault on the 2016 US election, the book reveals a global battlefield where everyone is a target. New York Times national security correspondent Sanger takes readers from the White House Situation Room to Chinese hacker dens and Silicon Valley boardrooms, exposing the perilous new era of technological conflict. Timely and bracing, *The Perfect Weapon* recounts the "cunning and dangerous development of cyberspace into the global battlefield of the 21st century." —*Washington Post*