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
Hasani J. Gunn is a Master of Public Policy candidate at Harvard Kennedy School and Belfer Young Leader Fellow at the Belfer Center. His professional background spans community organizing, crisis management, and economic analysis. Mr. Gunn’s research interests span international relations, Post-Keynesian economics, psychoanalysis and cultural theory, and political philosophy. Before Harvard, he worked as an emergency management consultant supporting the emergency preparedness, response, and resilience efforts of tribal, municipal, county, and state governments, including hazard mitigation, mass casualty incidents, and disaster recovery operations. Mr. Gunn holds a BA in Economics from Bard College and is a former Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
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