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.”
A Panel With:
Robert Zoellick
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
President, World Bank Group, 2007-2012
Deputy Secretary of State, 2005-2006
Michèle Flournoy
Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group
United States Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 2009-2012
Major General (Ret.) Amos Yadlin
Director, Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies, 2011-present
Chief of Defense Intelligence, Israel Defense Forces, 2006-2010
Harvard Kennedy School MPP ‘94
Dan Meridor
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence, Government of Israel 2009-13
Chairman of The Jerusalem Foundation, 2003-2006
Meghan O'Sullivan (moderator)
Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School