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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The Honorable Ban Ki-moon
Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; Eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations
Joseph S. Nye
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Former Dean of Harvard Kennedy School
Graham Allison (Moderator)
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School;
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,