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.”
James S. Snyder, HKS/MEI Senior Fellow, in conversation with Zoya Cherkassky, a contemporary Israeli artist, who arrived as a child from the Soviet Union, talking about other kinds of outsiders who are also an integral part of the landscape of Israel and Palestine and about how art makes the complexity of their experiences comprehensible for others.
