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
Wei Peng is a former Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Science in the Environment and Natural Resources Program. Wei researches integrating air quality, water, and climate concerns into the energy strategy in the developing world. At the Belfer Center, her research focuses on facilitating China's carbon mitigation efforts by domestic air pollution concerns.
She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a B.S. in Environmental Sciences from Peking University, China. She was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar and Princeton Energy and Climate Scholar.
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