Ankit Panda
I’m the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where I work on nuclear strategy, escalation, extended deterrence, and nonproliferation. I also work on risks from emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to human safety and geopolitics.
More about me
I’m the author of The New Nuclear Age (Polity, 2025) and Kim Jong Un and the Bomb (Hurst, 2020).
I also host two podcasts: Thinking the Unthinkable and Asia Geopolitics.
I’m a research affiliate at MIT’s Center for Nuclear Security Policy. I studied public and international affairs at Princeton. I live in Washington, DC.
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Recent writing
- Trump Wants Kim Back at the Table. He Must Focus on Coexistence, Not Denuclearization
- The Spectre of Renewed Iran-North Korea Missile Cooperation
- Nuclear Weapons and the Future of American Power
- New uranium plant brings North Korea closer to mass-producing nukes
- What Did the NPT Review Conference Achieve?
Everything, by year and topic, on the writing page.
- Logics of Arming: 11 Propositions of American Nuclear Strategy
- Salvage Fuzing and Orbital Nuclear Weapons
- Self-Sovereign AI and Catalytic Nuclear War: A Plausible Near-Term Problem
- India-Pakistan May 2025 Redux: More on the Mystery at Kirana Hills
- Independence Day Special: Nuclear Weapons and American Power
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