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
Amit Grober was an associate in the Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom. His research focuses on the lessons learned from the evolution and decline of military nuclear programs and their implications for nonproliferation policies. Before his fellowship, he worked for the Government of Israel for ten years, where he’s dealt with research, analysis, and nonproliferation issues. His research interests include, among others: nuclear issues, dynamics of nuclear proliferation, nuclear histories, and strategic surprises. He graduated from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, where he earned B.A. in Mathematics and Physics (cum laude)
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