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.”
Biography
Ashish Jha is the C. Boyden Gray Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health. He is a practicing general internist with a clinical focus on hospital care. A major theme of his research is using information technology among other tools as potential solutions for reducing medical errors and disparities while improving over-all quality.
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