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
Daniel Bicknell is the former Interim Research Manager of the Belfer Center’s Arctic Initiative. In 2022, he became a Senior Project Manager at the Brookings Institution's Center for Sustainable Development. While at Harvard Kennedy School, he served as a Research Assistant to the Arctic Initiative, a Course Assistant to IGA 671M, "Policy and Social Innovations for the Changing Arctic," and a Belfer IGA Student Fellow. His HKS policy analysis exercise focused on improving access to multi-hazard early warning systems for UN Climate Change and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Bicknell previously worked at Partners in Health, Peace Corps Response—Peru, the US Department of Energy, and Marstel-Day, LLC. He is motivated to work at the nexus of community, science, and governance to combat the climate crisis and reduce socioecological harm. Bicknell holds an MPP in International and Global Affairs from the Harvard Kennedy School and an AB in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College.
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