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.”
16 Experts
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Purpose Project
- Former Senior Fellow, Cyber Project
- Former U.S Chief Data Scientist
- Former CTO, Devoted Health
DJ Patil
- Faculty
- Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Faculty Affiliate, Technology and Public Purpose Project
- Fellow, 2018 - 2019, digital HKS, Product Management
Kathy Pham
- Senior Fellow
- Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Fellow, Technology and Public Purpose Project
Nick Sinai
- Fellow
- Editor-at-Large, Boston Globe
- Fellow, Technology and Public Purpose Project
- Former Senior Advisor for Climate Change Innovation, Obama White House
Bina Venkataraman
- Faculty
- Professor of Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Chief Technology Officer, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)
- Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, SEAS
James Waldo
- Faculty
- Faculty Affiliate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Jonathan L Zittrain