For years the United States had failed to engage in these discussions, in large part because it was the world’s supreme cyber superpower, with offensive capabilities it assumed would take adversaries years, decades even, to develop. But the theft of its tools, and the WannaCry and NotPetya attacks, made clear that the gap was closing. Scores of new nation-states were moving into this invisible battlespace. The United States had, for two decades, been laying the groundwork for cyberwar, and it was now American businesses, infrastructure, and civilians who were bearing the brunt of its
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