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.”
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government 30th Anniversary Forum Panel with
Lawrence Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor and M-RCBG Director, Harvard Kennedy School
Roger Porter
IBM Professor of Business & Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Paula Dobriansky
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Ben Heineman
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Distinguished Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance
Nina Easton (moderator)
Fortune Magazine columnist; commentator for the Fox News Channel; Fall 2012 fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics