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
Élodie Giraudier is an Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the New Sorbonne University-Paris 3, France. Her current research explores how the U.S. administrations and Catholic networks interacted with the Chilean Christian Democrats to prevent a communist regime from taking power in Chile (1954-1967). It lies at the intersection of political, religious, diplomatic, global, and transnational history.
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