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
Georgiy Kent is a third-year undergraduate at Harvard College pursuing a joint concentration in social studies and Slavic languages and literature. His primary academic focus is democratic social movements in post-Soviet countries. As the child of a Foreign Service Officer, Georgiy grew up in Ukraine, Thailand, and the United States.
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