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.”
40 Experts
- 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
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow
Lori Garver
- Senior Fellow
- Founder and CEO, tEquitable
- Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Purpose Project
- Former Chief Digital Service Officer, U.S. Department of Education
Lisa Gelobter
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program
Julie George
- Affiliate
- Senior Advisor, Intelligence Project
Susan M. Gordon
- Fellow
- Fellow, 2017 - 2019, digital HKS
Jenn Gustetic
- Fellow
- China Tech & Society Reporter, Wall Street Journal
- Fellow, Technology and Public Purpose Project
- Former Senior AI Editor, MIT Tech Review
Karen Hao
- 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
- Fellow
- Fellow, The Homeland Security Project
Steve Johnson
- Faculty
- Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative