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
Jake Steckler is a Veteran U.S. Army officer and graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan School of Management. He volunteers with Zero Line, which provides aid to Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline, and is a contributor to the Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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