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Zero Days

A Social Cinema Screening

  • In-Person
  • Civic Hall
    156 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor
    New York, NY 10010
  • 6:30PM – 9PM EDT
Zero Days


I got the news about Stuxnet from one of my computer engineers. He said, ‘Of course you know we were waiting for something really bad…Well, it happened.’ – Eugene Kaspersky, Russian cybersecurity expert

The days of tanks and high-powered munitions as primary weapons of war may soon be fading into the past. What has the potential to quickly overtake them is a form of cyber warfare that now lays dormant on countless computers worldwide, with the power to attack national institutions and infrastructure before war is ever declared. Far beyond hacking or spying, this sophisticated malware, a computer virus known as Stuxnet, is unregulated, veiled in secrecy, and, without public discourse, changing the nature of warfare.

But according to , a new film by Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney, Stuxnet is only the first of many more computer viruses capable of destroying critical systems – electrical grids, nuclear power plants, telecom, traffic, and water treatment facilities – and flipping the switch on the next global war. In a world where the conventional “rules of war” are thrown to the side, are secretive cyberweapons the new standard in national security?

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PARTICIPANTS

Alex Gibney 
Writer and Director, Zero Days

Ian Wallace 
Senior Fellow and Co-director, Cybersecurity Initiative, ¹ú²úÊÓÆµ

Fred Kaplan 
War Stories Columnist, Slate
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Karen Greenberg 
Director, Center on National Security, Fordham School of Law
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