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 Salisbury is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) at King’s College London and a former Associate of the Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. He was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at MTA and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
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