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.”
- Alumni
AMB Laura S. H. Holgate
- FormerSenior Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Staff Assistant to Professor Ashton Carter, 1990–1992
Current Affiliation:
Representative of the United States of America to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of Ambassador
