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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Amy Chang
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- Affiliate, Cyber Security Project
Jennifer Daskal
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- Former Associate, Cyber Security Project
Ryan Ellis
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- Senior Advisor, Intelligence Project
Susan M. Gordon
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- F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
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Meg Rithmire
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- Senior Advisor, Intelligence Project
Norman T. Roule
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- Former Research Fellow, Cyber Security Project
Scott J. Shackelford
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