Global Military Perspectives on Quantum Technologies
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Quantum Technologies, Quantum Computing, Quantum SensingAbstract
In recent decades, a technological impactful movement on society is being visualized: the second quantum revolution; a consequence of decades of advances in nanotechnology and atom by atom assembly of materials, thus, enabling to take the advantages of phenomena intrinsic to quantum mechanics, such as superposition and entanglement, to design quantum devices possessing novel or better capabilities. Alongside, a new dimension of war, a quantum domain, concerns governments worldwide, as well as private parties, especially connected to the industry sector. Managing resources to the most promising military applications in quantum technology is a subject in an ongoing discussion in terms of political and strategic planning. With that, an auspicious schedule and a favorable political-financial global plot has its origin in the present days. This article gives a global overview of the main political perspectives, American and European, on contemporary quantum technologies and their potential general and military applications.
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