The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
A conversation with Steve Hadley, former National Security Advisor for President George W. Bush from 2004-2009, and Adil Abdul Mahdi, former Vice President of the Republic of Iraq from 2005-2011 and former Minister of Finance 2004-2005, moderated by Meghan O'Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs.
In collaboration with the Institute for Iraqi Studies at Boston University.