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.”
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- Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative
Abbas Al-Mejren
- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar, Arctic Initiative
Douglas Causey
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- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar, Applied History Project
Stephen Kotkin
- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative
Hanan Morsy
Current Affiliation:
Middle East Initiative
- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar, Project on Managing the Atom
- Former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2020–2021
Aditi Verma
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- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Catherine Wolfram
- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar, Project on Managing the Atom
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