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
Expertise:
- 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
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Senior Researcher in Nuclear Arms Control, Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
David Kearn
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
R. Scott Kemp
- 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
- Energy
- Biofuels
- U.S. energy policy
- Oil
- Nuclear power
- 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
- Natural resource management
- Environmental policy
- Nuclear waste
Henry Lee
Expertise:
- Board of Directors
- Faculty
- Co-director, Harvard Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Weapons
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Matthew Meselson