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 Experts
- 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
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- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear security
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuclear waste
- Nuclear weapons
- Russia nuclear program
Graham Allison
- 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
- 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
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program
- Former Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2021–2023
- Nuclear power
- Intelligence in policymaking
- Military strategy
- U.S. foreign policy
- Diplomacy
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- China & security
- Military intervention
- Intelligence
- China nuclear issues
- India nuclear program
- Iran nuclear program
- North Korea nuclear program
- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear weapons
- U.S. nuclear issues
Mayumi Fukushima
- Research Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program
Julie George
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2022–2023
- Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2020–2022
Nicole Grajewski
- 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
- Faculty
- Board of Directors
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
- Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security, Harvard Kennedy School
- Faculty Director, Homeland Security Project
- Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative