NATO to establish new quantum technology center in Denmark
The development of quantum computers is part of an international race to supercomputers and will transform everything from weather forecasting to military modeling, encryption and code-breaking.
On April 6, NATO announced the establishment of a new quantum technology development center in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The centre will become part of the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and develop and test new multipurpose technologies to promote green transition, navigation, research and defence. The Technical University of Denmark, Aarhus University and the Danish National Metrology Institute are also expected to contribute.
Danish Defense Minister Morten Bodskov said that the development of quantum technology will bring significant security policy changes to Denmark and NATO; Bodskov was quoted by Danish Radio as saying, "This can help to completely reform our defense system against cyber attacks and strengthen our cyber security. "
Henrik Moltke, a Danish radio technologist, said that quantum computers will be much faster than ordinary computers and will be able to fundamentally change computing and modeling, which will play a key role in military development and will improve encryption and secure communications, allowing cryptography been cracked.
"When this technology can crack passwords, it will change everything related to communications security. So it makes sense for NATO to bet on that," Moltke said, citing the ongoing computer race between the superpowers, and compared it to World War II. "It's like during World War II when the British managed to use the Enigma machine to decipher the German code." According to Moltke, although the technology is expected to have a major impact on research that processes large amounts of data, including genome sequencing, Weather forecasting, vaccine development, and a green transition, but it will first provide a military advantage on the battlefield, providing more information about enemy forces and their actions. "If you can figure out where your opponent is going to attack you, you can protect yourself better."
In recent years, with the increasing geopolitical tension, NATO is accelerating the deployment of quantum technology. For example, from March 2021, the NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has conducted a test run of a secure communication flow using a virtual private network (VPN) provided by British company Post-Quantum, which it says is secure against quantum computer attacks The internet. In March 2022, NATO announced the completion of the test: the NATO Cyber Security Centre, operated by the NATO Communications and Information Directorate (NCI), protects NATO networks around the clock.
With the completion of NATO's Quantum Technology Center in Denmark, the organization will accelerate the military application of quantum technology.
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