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
Josh Tupler was a Research Assistant at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He worked on U.S. foreign policy and international security, with a focus on nuclear weapons and East Asia.
Prior to joining the Belfer Center, Josh was a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for International and Defence Policy and worked at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center, Morgan Stanley, and Bridgewater. Josh is a Yenching Scholar earning his Master’s in China Studies from Peking University, and graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor’s in Government and a minor in Ethics.
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