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.”
19 Experts
- Board of Directors
- Faculty
- Co-director, Harvard Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Weapons
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Matthew Meselson
- 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:
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/ Project on Managing the Atom, 2022–2023
David Minchin Allison
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Sylvia Mishra
- Faculty
- Director, Korea Project
John S. Park
- Faculty
- Professor of Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Chief Technology Officer, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)
- Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, SEAS
James Waldo
- Associate
- Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, 2021–2022
Heather Williams
- Staff
- Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Hui Zhang
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Assaf Zoran