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
Gabe Armstrong-Scott was an Allison Fellow and Knox Fellow at Harvard University. Previously, Gabrielle worked for the New Zealand Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and for the private sector in the United States. Her research interests include U.S. foreign policy and national security, strategic competition, North Asia & the Pacific, coercion and coercive diplomacy, weapons of mass destruction, currency internationalization, cyber and information operations, and the psychology of decision making. Gabrielle received a B.A. from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and an M.P.E. in Economics from Victoria University of Wellington.
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