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.”
15 Experts
- Faculty
- Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Joseph E. Aldy
- Fellow
- Non-Resident Fellow, Intelligence Project
- Former Non-Resident Fellow, Cyber Project
Jeff Fields
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Jeffrey Frankel
Expertise:
- Affiliate
- Senior Advisor, Intelligence Project
Susan M. Gordon
- Affiliate
- Affiliate, Environment and Natural Resources Program
- Raymond Plank Research Professor of Global Energy Policy
William Hogan
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Intelligence Project
Paul Kolbe
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Intelligence Project
Ellen E. McCarthy
- Staff
- Program Manager, Intelligence Project
Michael Miner
- Staff
- Director of the Intelligence Project
Mark Pascale
- Staff
- Program Manager, Intelligence Project and Recanati-Kaplan Fellowship
Maria Robson-Morrow