It's time to build America's cyber-nuke. We desperately need a deterrent to stop wars before they start

American nuclear weapons, specifically the atomic bomb, brought World War II to a close. They then averted a hot war with the Soviet Union and bolstered decades of global stability. The decisive superweapons of the next great conflict will be digital and run on supercomputers (specifically specialized chips called "GPUs"), with the power to break codes, paralyze our enemies' economies, and destroy their weapons from the inside. Just as America's military needs the world's best planes and ships, America's military needs a state-of-the-art supercomputer to deter future conflicts before they begin. Our adversaries must understand that attacking the United States or our allies in Taiwan will place them in the crosshairs of the world's most formidable cyberweapon and not prevent us from producing one.