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.”
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Dr. Karen Donfried
- Research Assistant, Green Hydrogen and Energy Value Chains in the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy Project
Phoebe Fallon
Expertise:
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program
- Former Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2021–2023
- Nuclear power
- Intelligence in policymaking
- Military strategy
- U.S. foreign policy
- Diplomacy
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- China & security
- Military intervention
- Intelligence
- China nuclear issues
- India nuclear program
- Iran nuclear program
- North Korea nuclear program
- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear weapons
- U.S. nuclear issues
Mayumi Fukushima
Expertise:
- Board of Directors
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Energy
- U.S. energy policy
- Transportation
- Renewable energy
- India energy policy
- Energy security
- Energy R&D
- Energy Innovation policy
- Energy conservation
- Coal, Carbon Capture, & Storage
- China energy policy
- Environment & Climate Change
- Air pollution
- Climate change policy
- Environmental policy
- China & security
- Science & Technology
- Innovation systems
- Science & Technology Policy
Kelly Sims Gallagher
Expertise:
- Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Weila Gong
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Christine Gschwendtner
Expertise:
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Adel Hamaizia
- Affiliate
- Affiliate, Environment and Natural Resources Program
- Raymond Plank Research Professor of Global Energy Policy
William Hogan
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Teresa and John Heinz Research Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Co-Director, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- President Obama's Science Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (January 2009 – January 2017)
John P. Holdren
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Intelligence Project
Paul Kolbe