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.”
3 Experts
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Belfer Center
Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.
- Fellow
- Fellow, Defense Project and Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship
Svenja Kirsch
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Co-Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Lecturer in Public Policy
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense (2015-2017)
- Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Security and Homeland Defense (2014-2015)
- Dep. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy (2011-2014)
Eric Rosenbach