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.”
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5 Experts
- Fellow
- Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
Michael Falcone
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program
Julie George
- Board of Directors
- Faculty
- Co-director, Harvard Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Weapons
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Matthew Meselson
- 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
- Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Future of Diplomacy Project
- Weak/Failed states
- Coronavirus
- Intelligence in policymaking
- Military strategy
- International Relations
- Soft power
- U.S. foreign policy
- U.S. primacy
- History
- International development
- International Security & Defense
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Terrorism & Counterterrorism
- Military policy
- Afghanistan war
- China & security
- Democracy
- Intelligence
- Nuclear Issues
- Dirty bombs
- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear security
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuclear weapons
- U.S. nuclear issues
- Cyber Security
Joseph S. Nye
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