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.”
Connie Hedegaard was appointed in February 2010 as the first European Commissioner for Climate Action. Previously, she was the Danish Minister for Climate and Energy, in which position she hosted the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009.
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