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
Shuangquan Liu is a senior engineer with Kunming Power Exchange Center Co. LTD and a former research fellow with the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard Kennedy School. He received his Ph.D. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 2009 and then was a postdoc at Yunnan Power Grid Co. LTD working on multiple hydropower reservoirs' operation and generation scheduling. He holds Master's and Bachelor’s degrees from North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power. He was previously with Yunnan Electric Power Dispatch and Control Center and conducted researches in hydropower dispatching and generation scheduling. His research interest now mainly focuses on the power sector restructuring and electricity market.
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