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.”
5 People
- Fellow
- Ernest May Visiting Fellow, Applied History Project
- Former Associate, Project on Managing the Atom; Former Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
Francis Gavin
- Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Weila Gong
- Fellow
- Predoctoral Research Fellow, Arctic Initiative
Guðbjörg Ríkey Th. Hauksdóttir
- Fellow
- Program Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Cathy O'Neil
- Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program