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.”
8 People
- Fellow
- Advisor, Defending Digital Democracy Project
Dmitri Alperovitch
- Former Fellow, Defending Digital Democracy Project
Meredith Berger
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations, and Environment
- Staff
- Faculty Assistant, Meghan O'Sullivan
- Program Coordinator, Geopolitics of Energy Project
Chloé Holt
- Former Non-Resident Fellow, Defending Digital Democracy Project
Simon Jones
- Staff
- Senior Research Associate and Manager
Charles Landow
- Fellow
- Former Non-Resident Fellow, China Cyber Policy Initiative
Aleksandra Milcheva
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
Meghan L. O'Sullivan
- 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