The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon
by Ankit Panda
Nuclear weapons are once again at the center of global power struggles. In The New Nuclear Age, international security expert Ankit Panda examines the alarming return of nuclear threats in ways unseen since the Cold War—from Russia’s saber-rattling to China and North Korea’s expanding arsenals—and the growing risk of proliferation worldwide.
In this incisive book, Panda explores how fragile great-power relations, new technologies like AI, and the erosion of arms control are making nuclear stability harder to maintain. Unlike the peril of the Cold War, a greater number of nuclear players and a plethora of new technologies make the search for stability far from straightforward. Managing the risks of a nuclear confrontation, he argues, will require new urgency and thinking to pull us back from the precipice of global catastrophe.
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