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
Cameron Tracy is a former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center and a former Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on arms control and the reduction of nuclear and chemical weapon stockpiles. He previously held a fellowship at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Cameron was a 2018 Nuclear Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
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