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.”
4 People
- Associate
- Associate, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
- Former Visiting Scholar, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 2008–2009
Mohammed Al-Juaied
- Associate
- Associate, Environment and Natural Resources Program
- Former Non-Resident Fellow, Technology and Public Purpose Project
Ashlie L Burkart
- Associate
- Associate, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez
- Associate
- Associate, Arctic Initiative
- Former Senior Fellow, Arctic Initiative