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
Greg Harris has taught writing at Harvard University for 20 years, in the College, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Harris is founding editor of Pangyrus Literary Magazine, and founding director of Harvard's literary festival Harvard LITfest. His essays, reviews, and stories have appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard Review, Earth Island Journal, and elsewhere. A 2023 Fulbright Scholar to Iceland, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing. His translation of Indonesian author Seno Gemira Ajidarma’s Jazz, Perfume, and the Incident is part of the Modern Library of Indonesia.
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