COVID-19 is not “Like a Nuclear Attack” But Another Kind of Virus Might be

A few weeks ago the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists headlined an interview with novelist and academic Jeffery Lewis claiming it would explain “[h]ow the coronavirus outbreak is like a nuclear attack.” Indeed, Lewis insists the pandemic is, as he describes it, a “nuclear war in slow motion.” It isn’t, but as life under COVID-19 restrictions highlights the nation’s and, really, the world’s growing dependence on the web and associated cyber technologies, a virulent computer virus just might prove as dangerous as a nuclear war. Let’s unpack this a bit. Read More…