Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also an affiliate of the Center for Nuclear Security Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His ongoing research is focused on nuclear strategy in the twenty-first century, artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons, escalation, space security, and U.S. alliances. Panda is the author of The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon (Polity, 2025), Indo-Pacific Missile Arsenals: Avoiding Spirals and Mitigating Risks (Carnegie, 2023), and Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea (Hurst/Oxford, 2020).