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.”
6 People
- Alumni
- Director Emeritus, Center for Science and International Affairs; Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Paul Doty
- Alumni
- Former Research Fellow, Cyber Security Project, 2015–2016
Jaclyn Kerr
- Alumni
- Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2008–2011
Thomas M. Nichols
- Alumni
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Arctic Initiative
Andrey Todorov
- Alumni
- Former Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2002-2007
Anthony Wier
- Alumni
- Former Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center For Science and International Affairs
- Former Member of the Board, Belfer Center