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.”
4 People
- Associate
- Former Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy, International Security Program, 2011–2013
- Former Associate, Applied History Project
Pierpaolo Barbieri
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Founder, Ualá, and Executive Director, Greenmantle
- Associate
- Associate, Applied History Project
- Former Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program, 2019–2021
Nathaniel L. Moir
- Associate
- Associate, Applied History Project
- Former Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program, 2018–2020
Aroop Mukharji
Expertise:
Current Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
- Associate
- Research Affiliate, Applied History Project
- Former Research Assistant, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Former Project Coordinator, Applied History Project
- Former Research Assistant, American Secretaries of State Project
Justin Winokur
Current Affiliation:
PhD Candidate, University of Virginia