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.”
25 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
- North Korea nuclear program
- Nuclear proliferation
- Nuclear security
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuclear waste
- Nuclear weapons
- Russia nuclear program
Graham Allison
Expertise:
- Faculty
David Armitage
Current Affiliation:
Affiliate, Applied History Working Group
- Fellow
- Fellow, Korea Project/Applied History Project
Jieun Baek
Expertise:
- Fellow
- Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
Stephen Buono
- Fellow
- Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
Sudarshana Chanda
- Fellow
- Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
Michael Falcone
- Faculty
- Senior Faculty Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Niall Ferguson
Expertise:
- Fellow
- Ernest May Visiting Fellow, Applied History Project
- Former Associate, Project on Managing the Atom; Former Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
Francis Gavin
Current Affiliation:
Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor & Director, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
- Fellow
- Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
Élodie Giraudier
- Fellow
- Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
Grant Golub