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.”
On October 30 at 11:00 AM, the Belfer Center and the Project on Managing the Atom will host a presentation and discussion with members of the UN Panel of Experts on Iran, established under Security Council resolution 1929 (2010) on the UN sanctions committee’s work.