Cybercrime and Nuclear Weapons

(asked on 12th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect of maintaining nuclear weapons on the deterrence of cyber crime threats.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 17th November 2020

The nuclear deterrent is not intended to deter crime. The UK has policies and capabilities to deal with the wide range of threats we currently face or might face in the future, including the threat of cyber crime. Our nuclear deterrent exists to deter the most extreme threats to our national security and way of life, which cannot be deterred by other means.

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