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.”
In this Project on Managing the Atom Seminar, MTA will welcome two diplomats from Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs for a discussion on the prospects for the 2015 NPT Review Conference and the non-proliferation regime. Klaus Korhonen, Ambassador for Arms Control, and Sannamaaria Vanamo, Director of the Unit for Arms Control, will provide brief remarks and answer questions from 10:00 am to 11:30 am, October 31, in the Belfer Center Library.