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.”
Please join the Intelligence Project and the Saudi & GCC Security Project for a lunch seminar with Bernard Hudson. This seminar with the former Chief of Counterterrorism for the CIA will cover the current state of the Middle East in the wake of recent major announcements and events, and provoke a discussion on what should be the way forward for the US in the region.
