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.”
6 People
- Alumni
- Former Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program, 2018–2020
Paul Behringer
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, University Park, Texas
- Alumni
- Former Associate, International Security Program, 2018–2019; Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2016–2018
- Former Research Associate, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, 2013–2014; Former Research Assistant, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, 2012–2013
Paul Fraioli
Current Affiliation:
Ph.D. Candidate, Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
- Alumni
- Former Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program, 2016–2018
Jason M. Kelly
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Strategy and Policy Department, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island
- Alumni
- Former Research Director, American Secretaries of State Project
Eugene B. Kogan
- Alumni
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, 2021–2022
- Former Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program, 2020-2021
- Former Associate, Project on Managing the Atom (MTA), May 16–August 31, 2016
- Former Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program (ISP)/MTA, September 1, 2015–May 15, 2016;
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014–2015
Jayita Sarkar
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
- Alumni
- Former Associate, Applied History Project, March–June 2022
- Former Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program, 2020–February 2022
Graeme Thompson
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Senior Analyst, Global Macro-Politics, Eurasia Group, Washington, D.C.