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.”
7 Experts
- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
- Former Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 2013–2016
- Former Director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center, 2010–2016
- Former Associate Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center, 2012–2016
Laura Diaz Anadon
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Chaired Professor of Climate Change Policy, University of Cambridge
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Belfer Professor of Technology and Global Affairs
- Faculty Director, Technology and Public Purpose Project
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former United States Secretary of Defense (2015-2017)
- Intelligence in policymaking
- Military strategy
- U.S. foreign policy
- NATO
- International Security & Defense
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Preventive defense
- Security Strategy
- Terrorism & Counterterrorism
- National security economics
- Chemical & biological weapons
- Afghanistan war
- China & security
- Democracy
- Homeland security
- Nuclear Issues
- China nuclear issues
- India nuclear program
- Iran nuclear program
- North Korea nuclear program
- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear terrorism
- Russia nuclear program
- Science & Technology
- Science & Technology Policy
Ash Carter
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:
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Intelligence Project
Susan M. Gordon
- Faculty
- Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Environment & Climate Change
- Nuclear waste
- Climate change policy
- Climate agreements
- Economic Policy
- Air pollution
- Sustainable development
- Environmental economics
- Energy
- Coal, Carbon Capture, & Storage
- Biofuels
- Electricity
- Energy security
- Oil
- Nuclear power
- Energy Innovation policy
- U.S. energy policy
- Energy R&D
- Science & Technology
- Science & Technology Policy
- Sustainable engineering
- Technology assessments
- Sustainability science
- Oil & Energy Prices
David Keith
Expertise:
- Senior Fellow
- Non-resident Senior Fellow, Homeland Security Project and Cyber Project
Christopher (Chris) Krebs
- Board of Directors
- Faculty
- Co-Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Director, Defending Digital Democracy Project
- Lecturer in Public Policy
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense (2015-2017)
Eric Rosenbach