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.”
15 Experts
- Associate
- Associate, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
- Former Visiting Scholar, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 2008–2009
Mohammed Al-Juaied
- Affiliate
- Affiliate, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
- Former Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 2013–2016
- Former Director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center, 2010–2016
- Former Associate Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center, 2012–2016
Laura Diaz Anadon
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Chaired Professor of Climate Change Policy, University of Cambridge
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development
- Area Chair, HKS International and Global Affairs
- Energy
- Biofuels
- U.S. energy policy
- Environment & Climate Change
- Air pollution
- Biodiversity
- Climate agreements
- Climate change policy
- Sustainable development
- Natural resource management
- Environmental policy
- International Relations
- International development
- Science & Technology
- Globalization
- International comparisons
- Science & Technology Policy
William C. Clark
Expertise:
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program / Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Nicola De Blasio
- Board of Directors
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Energy
- U.S. energy policy
- Transportation
- Renewable energy
- India energy policy
- Energy security
- Energy R&D
- Energy Innovation policy
- Energy conservation
- Coal, Carbon Capture, & Storage
- China energy policy
- Environment & Climate Change
- Air pollution
- Climate change policy
- Environmental policy
- China & security
- Science & Technology
- Innovation systems
- Science & Technology Policy
Kelly Sims Gallagher
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
- Board of Directors
- Faculty
- Co-director, Harvard Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Weapons
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Matthew Meselson
- 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:
- 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
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Physics, Emeritus
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti