Cybersecurity Discourse in the United States Cyber-Doom Rhetoric and Beyond | Military & Strategic Studies

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This book examines the role of cyber-doom rhetoric in the U.S. cybersecurity debate. For more than two decades fear of cyber-doom scenarios-i.e. cyberattacks against critical infrastructure resulting in catastrophic physical social and economic impacts-has been a persistent feature of the U.S. cybersecurity debate. This is despite the fact that no cyberattack has come close to realizing such impacts. This book argues that such scenarios are part of a broader rhetoric of cyber-doom within the U.S. cybersecurity debate and takes a multidisciplinary approach that draws on research in history sociology communication psychology and political science. It identifies a number of variations of cyber…