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.”
12 Experts
- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar, Arctic Initiative
Douglas Causey
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Arctic Initiative
Nadezhda Filimonova
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- Faculty Affiliate, Arctic Initiative
Stuart Harris
- Fellow
- Predoctoral Research Fellow, Arctic Initiative
Guðbjörg Ríkey Th. Hauksdóttir
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- 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
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- Associate Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Brittany Janis
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- Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
- Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
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Henry Lee
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- Co-Founder and former Co-Director, Arctic Initiative
Halla Hrund Logadóttir
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Cristine Russell
- Staff
- Project Director, Arctic Initiative
- Former Senior Fellow, Arctic Initiative