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 discussion with:
Sam Harris
Neuroscientist, Co-founder and Chief Executive, Project Reason,
Author, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, among others
Maajid Nawaz
Author, Radical
Founding Chairman, Quilliam
Juliette Kayyem (moderator)
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Former Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, US Department of Homeland Security