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.”
With Tarek Masoud, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; Nathan Brown, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Charles Sennott, Executive Editor, Vice President and Co-Founder of GlobalPost.
Moderated by Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School
**Please note the change in location, now in L-230**