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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- Staff
- Executive Director, Belfer Center
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Natalie Colbert
- Fellow
- Non-Resident Fellow, Cyber Project
Amanda Current
Expertise:
- Affiliate
- Affiliate, Cyber Security Project
Jennifer Daskal
- Fellow
- National Security Fellow 2020
Patrick Dierig
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Belfer Center
- Senior Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project
Paula J. Dobriansky
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Dr. Karen Donfried
- Fellow
- Non-Resident Fellow, Intelligence Project
- Former Non-Resident Fellow, Cyber Project
Jeff Fields
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Arctic Initiative
Nadezhda Filimonova
Expertise:
- Fellow
- National Security Fellow 2020
Shawn Fuellenbach
- 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
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