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 ...

China tests underwater cable cutter: Concern over sabotage

A Chinese research vessel successfully tested a deep-sea cable cutter. The technology could also be used for sabotage.
Fast Company

Nearly all data that moves around the world goes through these undersea cables

Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind ...
The Conversation

Undersea cables are the unseen backbone of the global internet

Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind ...
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 ...