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 Remler is a M.P.A. student at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously he was a Research Associate for the Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he worked on U.S. economic strategy, Asian economies, and global governance. He received a B.A. in economics and history from the University of California, Berkeley.
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