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.”
23 Experts
- Research Fellow
- Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
Nate Grau
- Fellow
- Predoctoral Research Fellow, Arctic Initiative
Guðbjörg Ríkey Th. Hauksdóttir
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program
- Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2021–2023
Antonia Juelich
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow, Intelligence Project
Paul Kolbe
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program
Anatoly Levshin
- Staff
- Research Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
Marina Lorenzini
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Zoe Marks
- 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
- International Relations
- U.S. foreign policy
- NATO
- International Security & Defense
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Security Strategy
- Terrorism & Counterterrorism
- NATO
- Chemical & biological weapons
- Military intervention
- Iraq war
- Nuclear Issues
- Iran nuclear program
- North Korea nuclear program
- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear security
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuclear waste
- Nuclear weapons
- Russia nuclear program
- U.S. nuclear issues
Steven E. Miller
Expertise:
- Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Anurag Panda
- Staff
- Director, Russia Matters Project; Assistant Director, U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Simon Saradzhyan