In the digital world there is a convergence where nation states continue to connect more of their critical national infrastructures to the Internet while the global population of online actors with malicious intent continues to grow at rapidly increasing rate.  But the threat scenario is about to get worse.  The ability for an individual to reach out and effectively attack a nation state through its critical infrastructure is beginning to change the social psychological balance of power between the nation state and the individual.  When you combine this shift in the power balance with more people become technically proficient and the emergence of turnkey sophisticated attack tools, a perfect storm may be brewing that involves more than just the usual assumed threat population.   An ongoing study by Holt and Kilger have developed some preliminary statistical models that examine the effect of independent variables such as gender, age, level of computer expertise, level of emotional attachment to a person’s homeland, outgroup antagonism, country considered one’s homeland (U.S. versus non-U.S.) in a model that predicts the severity of a cyberattack against another foreign country and against one’s own homeland.  We also look at the severity of attack that one would consider in mounting a physical attack against a foreign country or one’s own country.  Preliminary results suggest which of these variables may have a significant effect on the severity of a cyberattack by an individual against a nation state.