have multiplied. it's a battle fought every day in cyberspace, but in the not too distant future, may be fought in the real world with real military hardware. mike lawrence joins us from the pentagon with more on this. chris, what's being contemplated, and why? >> reporter: the pentagon is in the final stages of putting together its sort of cyber security strategy, randi. it's going to be released probably in the next two or three weeks. and basically, taken as a whole, as a part of u.s. strategy, this is basically saying that if the united states is attacked through a cyber attack, it may be so damaging that it would cause the united states to respond with military force. in other words, computer attack in, military force going out. in other words, if there was a cyber attack that caused a nuclear reactor to melt down and kill hundreds of people, there's -- what this is saying is, that's the same as if somebody blew up something outside and caused that same sort of damage at the reactor. or if it they shut down an