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.”
7 People
- Alumni
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Hassan Ahmadian
- Alumni
- Former Associate, Iran Project
- Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Hussein Kalout
- Alumni
- Former Director of Iran Project
- Lecturer on Government, Harvard University Department of Government
- Lecturer on Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Payam Mohseni
- Alumni
- 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
Sahar Nowrouzzadeh
- Alumni
- Associate, Iran Project
- Former Iran Project Coordinator
Mohammad Sagha
- Alumni
- Former Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2002-2006; Former Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 1999-2002