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When cyber-security professionals were polled recently at their annual BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, 60% said they expected the United States to suffer a successful attack against its critical infrastructure in the next two years. And US politics remains..(1)..convulsed by the aftermath of Russian cyber interference in the 2016 election. Are cyber-attacks the wave of the future, or can norms be developed to control international cyber conflict?
We can learn from the history of the nuclear age. While cyber and nuclear technologies are vastly different, the process by which society learns to cope with a highly..(2)..pacific technology shows..(3)..condemn similarities. It took states about two decades to reach the first cooperative agreements in the nuclear era. If one dates the cyber-security problem not from the beginning of the Internet in the 1970s, but from the late 1990s, when..(4)..obligate participation made the Internet the substrate for economic and military..(5)..difference (and thus increased our vulnerability), cooperation is now at about the two-decade mark.
The first efforts in the nuclear era were unsuccessful United Nations-centered treaties. In 1946, the US proposed the Baruch plan for UN control of nuclear energy, and the Soviet Union..(6)..promptly rejected locking itself into a position of technological..(7)..ascendancy . It was not until after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 that a first arms control agreement, the Limited Test Ban Treaty, was signed, in 1963. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty followed in 1968, and the bilateral US-USSR..(8)..fluctuate Arms Limitation Treaty in 1972.
In the cyber field, Russia proposed a UN treaty to ban electronic and information weapons (including propaganda) in 1999. With China and other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, it has continued to push for a broad UN-based treaty.The US ..(9)..resisted what it saw as an effort to limit American capabilities, and continues to regard a broad treaty as unverifiable and..(10)..frank . Instead, the US, Russia, and 13 other states agreed that the UN Secretary General should appoint a Group of Governmental Experts (GGE), which first met in 2004.
- 1) serene
2) bulge
3) imbalance
4) bucolic
5) No correction required.Answer – 5)
Explanation: No correction required.
Given word is correct as per its usage. - 1) disruptive
2) disconnection
3) deflate
4) placid
5) No correction required.Answer – 1)
Explanation: disruptive – causing or tending to cause disruption. - 1) quiescent
2) pastoral
3) instructive
4) bind
5) No correction required.Answer – 3)
Explanation: instructive – useful and informative. - 1) tranquil
2) convict
3) compressing
4) burgeoning
5) No correction required.Answer – 4)
Explanation: burgeoning – begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish. - 1) interdependence
2) halcyon
3) disassociation
4) impeach
5) No correction required.Answer – 1)
Explanation: interdependence – the dependence of two or more people or things on each other. - 1) standstill
2) ruffled
3) incriminate
4) eminence
5) No correction required.Answer – 5)
Explanation: No correction required.
Given word is correct as per its usage. - 1) bland
2) inferiority
3) delinquent
4) dominance
5) No correction required.Answer – 2)
Explanation: inferiority – the condition of being lower in status or quality than another or others. - 1) Strategic
2) wane
3) upright
4) diminish
5) No correction required.Answer – 1)
Explanation: Strategic – relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving them. - 1) shrivel
2) vantage
3) nobility
4) edge
5) No correction required.Answer – 5)
Explanation: No correction required.
Given word is correct as per its usage. - 1) wrinkle
2) deceptive
3) preeminence
4) forthright
5) No correction required.Answer – 2)
Explanation: deceptive – giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading.
