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.”
5 Experts
- 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:
- Staff
- Board of Directors
- Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Conflict & Conflict Resolution
- Intrastate conflict
- Nuclear power
- Middle East policy
- International Relations
- U.S. foreign policy
- NATO
- International Security & Defense
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Security Strategy
- Terrorism & Counterterrorism
- NATO
- Chemical & biological weapons
- Military intervention
- Iraq war
- Nuclear Issues
- Iran nuclear program
- North Korea nuclear program
- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear security
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuclear waste
- Nuclear weapons
- Russia nuclear program
- U.S. nuclear issues
Steven E. Miller
Expertise:
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Senior Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
- Director, Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy Program
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Co-Director of Belfer Center (2017-June 2023)
- Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense (2015-2017)
- Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Security and Homeland Defense (2014-2015)
- Dep. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy (2011-2014)
Eric Rosenbach
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Future of Diplomacy Project
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Stephen M. Walt
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