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An Interview on Quantum and National Security

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Posted: March 24th, 2020

By The Cipher Brief

Quantum Information Science has been around for a while, but the importance of quantum computing and its impact on national security has become clear in recent years. Some national security experts are calling it the next technological revolution.  

Cipher Brief Expert and former General Counsel for the NSA, Glenn Gerstell, wrote an NYT Op-Ed last year titled, “I work for NSA. We cannot afford to lose the digital revolution’ and identified quantum computing as one of the most strategically important technologies of the future, with serious opportunities and risks for the nation that achieves quantum computing first. 

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