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
Frederick Iseman is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CI Capital Partners LLC, which he founded in 1993. He is on the Boards of all CI Capital Partners’ portfolio companies in various industries. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a co-author of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Independent Task Force Report U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, chaired by Dr. William Perry and Brent Scowcroft. As an active supporter of Yale University, he has endowed and established the Frederick Iseman Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, the Frederick Iseman Professorship of Poetry, and has been a long-time supporter of the Yale Center for Genocide Studies. In addition, the Frederick Iseman Theatre at the Yale Drama School was named. Mr. Iseman is an active supporter of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). He has published articles in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the New Yorker, and other publications, and his writing has been anthologized in the Inquiring Reader (Holt, Rinehart). Mr. Iseman has a B.A. in English Literature from Yale College.
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