David E Sanger, national security correspondent for the New York Times, speaks about his new book: The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age

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Throughout history, the weapon of choice for warring nations has evolved. Soon after the invention of the aeroplane at the start of the 20th century, countries involved in the various conflicts that battered the globe started to use them to drop bombs from the sky.

So what’s the latest, potentially deadly weapon that technology has delivered? According to the journalist and author David E Sanger, it’s cyber.

Sanger has been a journalist at the New York Times for 36 years, during which time he has served as a foreign correspondent, the chief Washington correspondent and the White House correspondent.



His new book, The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age, examines the emergence of cyber weapons as the primary way for states to attack and undermine each other, and how it has altered geopolitics forever.

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