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
Mayu Arimoto is a second-year Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to attending HKS, she served as a junior diplomat in the North America Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, focusing on bilateral political relations between Japan and the U.S., East Asian relations, as well as U.S. politics. Mayu received her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Tokyo with summa cum laude honors. Her research interests include Asia and the Pacific, U.S. foreign policy, and nuclear security.
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