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.”
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Steven Shavell is Director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics and Business at Harvard Law School; Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School; and Co-Director of the Law and Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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