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.”
33 People
- Research Fellow
- Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
Addison Jensen
- Fellow
- Fellow, Applied History Project
Anne Karalekas
- Research Fellow
- Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
Anatol Klass
- Faculty
- James E. Robison Chair of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
- Affiliate, Applied History Working Group
Nancy Koehn
- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar, Applied History Project
Stephen Kotkin
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and Professor of History at Harvard University, International Security Program
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Future of Diplomacy Project
Fredrik Logevall
- Research Fellow
- Ermest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
Jay Mens
- Fellow
- Non-resident Fellow
Wess Mitchell
- Associate
- Associate, Applied History Project
- Former Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program, 2019–2021
Nathaniel L. Moir
- Affiliate
- Affiliate, Applied History Project
- Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, HKS
- Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies