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.”
12 People
- Alumni
- Former Associate, Iran Project, November 2016–June 2018
Ali Fathollah-Nejad
- Alumni
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Hassan Ahmadian
- Alumni
- Former Senior Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Olli Heinonen
- Alumni
- Former Faculty Affiliate, Environment and Natural Resources
Dale Jorgenson
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- Former Associate, Iran Project
- Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Hussein Kalout
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- Former Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom
Martin B. Malin
- Alumni
- Former Research Fellow, Geopolitics of Energy Project, 2010–2012; Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, 2009–2010; Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 2007–2009
Jonas Meckling
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- Former Director of Iran Project
- Lecturer on Government, Harvard University Department of Government
- Lecturer on Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Payam Mohseni
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- Former Associate, Iran Project
Seyed Ammar Nakhjavani
- Alumni
- Former Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, 2019-2023
- Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Iran Project, 2017-2019