(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) China has surpassed the United States in conducting cyber warfare and one day may launch a large-scale attack that the U.S. will be unable to respond to, some of the nation's foremost national security experts warned Wednesday.
Unlike nuclear threats, where overwhelming U.S. stockpiles are considered a deterrent to China's smaller numbers of warheads, no such balance exists in the cyber realm, said Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's former national security adviser.
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China's superior capabilities in cyber warfare create the possibility "to paralyze an opponent entirely without killing anyone — that is very tempting," Brzezinski said at the first Senate Armed Services Committee hearing under new Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
