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
Hyun-Binn Cho is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at The College of New Jersey. He was previously a postdoctoral research fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom and the International Security Program. His research interests include crisis escalation, coercive diplomacy, nuclear security, and security in the Asia-Pacific. Previously, he was a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and a predoctoral fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University. Binn holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Political Science from Columbia University, an M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University, and a B.Sc. in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics.
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