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
Former Associate, Project on Managing the Atom (MTA), August 2018–June 2019; Former Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program (ISP)/MTA, July 2016–July 2018; Former Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow, ISP/MTA, 2015–2016
Current Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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