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.”
Forum: "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara." Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense for President Kennedy and President Johnson (1961 through 1968); Author, In Retrospect: The Tragedies and Lessons of Vietnam.