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.”
43 Experts
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Arctic Initiative
Nadezhda Filimonova
- 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
- Affiliate
- Senior Advisor, Intelligence Project
Susan M. Gordon
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Belfer Center
Ben Heineman
- Affiliate
- Affiliate, Environment and Natural Resources Program
- Raymond Plank Research Professor of Global Energy Policy
William Hogan
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Avoiding Great Power War Project
Charles Hooper
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program
Patrick Hulme
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security, Harvard Kennedy School
- Faculty Director, Homeland Security Project
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Juliette Kayyem
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Intelligence Project
Paul Kolbe
- Fellow
- Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Director, Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center