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
Jing Chen is a former Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center working with the Environment and Natural Resources Program. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University. Her current research explores issues in China energy policy, low-carbon policy and energy innovation, science & technology policy.
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