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
Martha "Marty" Amaya is a 2020 Charles B. Rangel Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. She is currently completing her Master in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and she participated in the Public Policy & International Affairs (PPIA) Fellowship Junior Summer Institute at Princeton University in 2019. Formerly, she was a Running Start Congressional Fellow at the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico's office in Washington, DC, and she also interned at the U.S. Department of State and contributed to the 2020 State Department Trafficking in Persons Report. She is the incoming Editor in Chief of the LGBTQ Policy Journal at the Harvard Kennedy School and she is one of the chairs of the Latinx Caucus. She is also a Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Associate with the Harvard Kennedy School's Enrollment Services. In her personal life, she enjoys acting and writing.
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