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.”
5 People
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, 2021–February 2022
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2020–2021
Abolghasem Bayyenat
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Jeffrey Frankel
- Staff
- Board of Directors
- Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Conflict & Conflict Resolution
- Intrastate conflict
- Nuclear power
- Middle East policy
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- U.S. foreign policy
- NATO
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- NATO
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- Iraq war
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- Iran nuclear program
- North Korea nuclear program
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- Nuclear security
- Nuclear terrorism
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- Russia nuclear program
- U.S. nuclear issues
Steven E. Miller
- Affiliate
- Affiliate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
- Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Afreen Siddiqi
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom