New undersea cable cutter risks Internet’s backbone

Chinese-flagged cargo ships have even damaged undersea data cables and gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea at least twice in ...
The Diplomat

China’s New Deep-Sea Cutting Tool Exposes Vulnerability of Undersea Cables

Chinese researchers have unveiled a new deep-sea tool capable of cutting through the world’s most secure subsea cables − and it has many in the West feeling a little jittery. The development, first ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

To keep the world’s data flowing, countries need to quickly fix broken undersea cables

In the midst of US-Soviet tensions over Berlin in early 1959, five transatlantic submarine cables suddenly stopped working. Alarm bells rang in Washington since these undersea information networks ...