This section includes information and official documents relating to the biennial nuclear security summits. Here you will find useful background information about the summits, a list of participating countries and their national regulators, as well as communiques, joint statements, and progress reports from the 2014 Hague Nuclear Security Summit, the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, and the 2010 Washington Nuclear Security Summit.
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.”