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.”
24 People
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Former Director, Belfer Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Future of Diplomacy Project
- Conflict & Conflict Resolution
- Weak/Failed states
- Energy security
- Coronavirus
- Governance
- Middle East policy
- International Relations
- U.S. foreign policy
- U.S. primacy
- United Nations
- NATO
- International Security & Defense
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Preventive defense
- Security Strategy
- Terrorism & Counterterrorism
- National security economics
- NATO
- Military policy
- Chemical & biological weapons
- Afghanistan war
- Military intervention
- Democracy
- Homeland security
- Iraq war
- Nuclear Issues
- Dirty bombs
- Iran nuclear program
- North Korea nuclear program
- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear security
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuclear waste
- Nuclear weapons
- Russia nuclear program
Graham Allison
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Middle East Initiative
- Former Research Fellow, Emirates Leadership Initiative, 2022–2023
Peyman Asadzade
- 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
- Staff
- Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2017–2018, 2019–2020
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2016–2017
Mariana Budjeryn
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Charles Bueker
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- James R. Schlesinger Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy
- Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Matthew Bunn
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2022–2023
Matthew Guasco
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2022–2023
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2021–2022
Matthew Hartwell
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Predoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2020–2021
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Predoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2019–2020
Stephen Herzog
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom