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.”
3 People
- Board of Directors
- Affiliate
- Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard University
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Jason Furman
- Affiliate
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative 2015 - 2016
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar
- Board of Directors
- Affiliate
- F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center