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.”
Niall Ferguson
Author, "Kissinger: Volume 1. 1923-1968: The Idealist"
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Mary Sarotte (Moderator)
Research Associate, Minda de Guzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard
Dean's Professor of International Relations, USC