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.”
9 People
- Fellow
- Non-Resident Fellow, Intelligence Project
- Former Non-Resident Fellow, Cyber Project
Jeff Fields
- Affiliate
- Senior Advisor, Intelligence Project
Susan M. Gordon
- Staff
- Research Assistant
JJ Henkin
Expertise:
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Teresa and John Heinz Research Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Co-Director, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- President Obama's Science Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (January 2009 – January 2017)
John P. Holdren
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Intelligence Project
Ellen E. McCarthy
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/ Project on Managing the Atom, 2022–2023
David Minchin Allison
- Staff
- Program Manager, Intelligence Project
Michael Miner
- Co-Lead, North Korea Cyber Working Group
- Coordinator, Korea Project
- Associate, Korea Project
Alex O'Neill
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Intelligence Project
Eric Traupe