As technological capabilities around the world increase, so does the potential for the weaponization of these technologies. Technology and war have always gone hand-in-hand, with rival countries constantly attempting to come up with the most powerful weapons imaginable. In today’s day and age, where nearly everything is connected to some sort of computer system, the weaponization of technology is becoming easier, and less risky. Years ago, to attack another nation, we would have to send troops to attack.

 

   Now, a team of well-funded hackers can access the computers that control nuclear weapons manufacturing plants and destroy parts of these plants without being detected, hack a single individual via nanotechnology, and even launch a biotechnology war based on the dispersal of viruses.  The weaponization of technology has the potential to change war into something we never thought imaginable.