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.”
5 People
- Fellow of the Division of Wilderness Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Luke Apisa
Expertise:
- Associate
- Associate, Environment and Natural Resources Program
- Former Non-Resident Fellow, Technology and Public Purpose Project
Ashlie L Burkart
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Arctic Initiative
Nadezhda Filimonova
Expertise:
- Affiliate
- Affiliate, Environment and Natural Resources Program
- Raymond Plank Research Professor of Global Energy Policy
William Hogan
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Meghan L. O'Sullivan