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
Felipe Bueno is a Masters candidate in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Charles Rangel Fellow with the U.S. Department of State. Before Harvard, Felipe worked for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). At HKS, his work focuses on cyber policy and U.S. foreign policy. Felipe holds a Bachelor of Science in International Relations and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Seton Hall University.
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