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
Nate Grau is a doctoral candidate in history at Harvard University. His dissertation, "France's Forgotten Soldiers," examines the evolving roles of paramilitary forces in the French Army during decolonization conflicts in Madagascar, Indochina, and Algeria. His interests broadly include counterinsurgency, European Defense, and sectarian violence. He has been a Fulbright fellow at the Université Paris-Nanterre and holds previous degrees from Columbia University and New York University.
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