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.”
17 Experts
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- James R. Schlesinger Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy
- Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Matthew Bunn
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2022–2023
Matthew Guasco
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2022–2023
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2021–2022
Matthew Hartwell
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Predoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2020–2021
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Predoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2019–2020
Stephen Herzog
- Affiliate
- Affiliate, Environment and Natural Resources Program
- Raymond Plank Research Professor of Global Energy Policy
William Hogan
- 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
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
David Kearn
- Research Fellow
- Stanton Nuclear Security Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Jung Jae Kwon
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Colleen Larkin
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
- Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
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- Biofuels
- U.S. energy policy
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- Natural resource management
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