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.”
3 People
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Intelligence Project
Paul Kolbe
- Staff
- Program Manager, Intelligence Project and Recanati-Kaplan Fellowship
Maria Robson-Morrow
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Korea Project
- Former Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Affiliate, Project on Managing the Atom