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.”
21 People
- Alumni
- Former Associate, Iran Project, November 2016–June 2018
Ali Fathollah-Nejad
Current Affiliation:
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha Center, Doha, Qatar
- Alumni
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Hassan Ahmadian
- Alumni
- Former Inaugural Fellow, Homeland Security Project, 2017–2020
Alan Bersin
Expertise:
- Alumni
- Former Fellow, The Homeland Security Project
John Carlin
Expertise:
- Alumni
- Former Fellow, The Homeland Security Project
Chris Handman
- Alumni
- Former Fellow, Homeland Security Project
Christine Heenan
- Alumni
- Former Senior Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Olli Heinonen
- Alumni
- Former Senior Fellow, The Homeland Security Project
Jeh Johnson
Expertise:
- Alumni
- Former Associate, Iran Project
- Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Hussein Kalout
- Alumni
- Non-resident Senior Fellow, Homeland Security Project and Cyber Project
Christopher (Chris) Krebs