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.”
7 People
- Alumni
- Former Associate, International Security Program, 2022–2023
- Former Research Fellow, Cyber Security Project, 2017–2018
- Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2002–2009
Ivan Arreguin-Toft
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Visiting Associate Professor, College, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
- Alumni
- Former Fisher Family Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project
Ban Ki-moon
- 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
- 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 Non-Resident Fellow, Intelligence Project
Daniel Hoffman
- Alumni
- Former Research Fellow, Cyber Security Project, 2015–2016
Jaclyn Kerr
- Alumni
- Former Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center For Science and International Affairs
- Former Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Dorothy Shore Zinberg