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
Michael Morell served 33 years with the Central Intelligence Agency, the last three-and-a-half as Deputy Director, a position from which he ran the day-to-day operations of the Agency. Mr. Morell also served on President Obama's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology; as the Director for Intelligence, the Agency's chief analyst; as the Executive Director, the CIA's top administrator; and as Acting Director twice. Mr. Morell currently serves as Senior Counselor at Beacon Global Strategies LLC.
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