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.”
30 People
- Alumni
- Former Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project, 2007-2009
General (ret.) John P. Abizaid
- Alumni
- Former Fisher Family Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project
Julie Bishop
- Alumni
- Former Research Fellow, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2004-2007
Nikolaos Biziouras
- Alumni
- Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2003-2004
Arne Brundtland
- Alumni
- Former Affiliate, Caspian Studies Program, 2004
Grenville Byford
- Alumni
- Former Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Former Belfer Professor of Technology and Global Affairs
- Former Faculty Director, Technology and Public Purpose Project
- Former Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Former Faculty Affiliate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former United States Secretary of Defense (2015-2017)
- Intelligence in policymaking
- Military strategy
- U.S. foreign policy
- NATO
- International Security & Defense
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Preventive defense
- Security Strategy
- Terrorism & Counterterrorism
- National security economics
- Chemical & biological weapons
- Afghanistan war
- China & security
- Democracy
- Homeland security
- Nuclear Issues
- China nuclear issues
- India nuclear program
- Iran nuclear program
- North Korea nuclear program
- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear terrorism
- Russia nuclear program
- Science & Technology
- Science & Technology Policy
Ash Carter
Expertise:
- Alumni
- Former Predoctoral Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 2015–2016
Kathryn Chelminski
Expertise:
- Alumni
- Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2010–2011
Edward Cunningham
- Alumni
- Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1995-1998
Renee de Nevers
- Alumni
- Former Affiliate, India and South Asia Program
Ronak D. Desai