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.”
Biography
Abigail Mayer is a joint Master in Public Policy and Master in Business Administration candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. Before attending HKS, she worked at the Boston Consulting Group, where she did extensive work in global health and global development. Over the next three years, Abigail hopes to explore business and policy solutions to reduce global climate change. She received her BA in Global Affairs from Yale University.
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