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
Luke Apisa, M.D. is the current Fellow of the Division of Wilderness Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Apisa works closely with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium to provide medical care to the Inupiaq people of northern Alaska, where he is leading quality initiatives to improve outcomes in critically ill patients at Maniilaq Medical Center. Current research initiatives include modeling of COVID transmission in rural Alaskan communities and human health effects of permafrost thaw. Beyond the Arctic, his scholarly interests include provision of medical care in austere environments and the study of human physiology at high altitude.
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Email: lapisa@mgh.harvard.edu