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.”
3 People
- Alumni
- Former Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom
Martin B. Malin
- Alumni
- Former Director of Iran Project
- Lecturer on Government, Harvard University Department of Government
- Lecturer on Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Payam Mohseni
- Alumni
- Former Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2002-2006; Former Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 1999-2002