The New Nuclear Age
At the Precipice of Armageddon
1. Auflage Februar 2025
288 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The world is entering a new nuclear age. Nuclear weapons are returning to the fore of international statecraft in ways unseen since the Cold War. With major powers like Russia issuing threats of nuclear strikes, China and North Korea continuing to grow their arsenals, and new prospects for proliferation from the Middle East to East Asia, the world has been thrust into a new era of heightened nuclear risk.
In this incisive book, international security expert Ankit Panda explores the enduring and emerging factors that are contributing to this new nuclear age. From strained great power ties to complex multipolar dynamics and the precipitous decline of arms control, he shows how our coexistence with the bomb is becoming more complicated and perilous. The prospect of nuclear escalation is again shaping how political decision-makers and military establishments around the world think and act. But unlike the peril of the Cold War, a greater number of nuclear players and a plethora of new technologies, including AI and exotic new weapons, 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.
Introduction
1. Slouching Toward a New Nuclear Age
2. From Terror, Peace
3. Technology and Escalation
4. The New Nuclear Disorder
5. Nuclear Flashpoints
6. What To Do About the Bomb?
Notes
Jennifer Kavanagh, Senior Fellow & Director of Military Analysis, Defense Priorities
"Ankit Panda artfully dissects Mutual Assured Destruction in the context of today's greatest challenges: Russia's war on Ukraine, the emerging tri-polarity in nuclear deterrence, and the evolving technological landscape. This book seeks to answer the pressing questions any researcher of global security confronts today, offering fresh insights into the future of deterrence strategy in a rapidly changing world."
Polina Sinovets, Head of Odesa Center for Nonproliferation, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine
"The New Nuclear Age offers a comprehensive look at the wide range of nuclear challenges facing the world in the 21st century. Panda points out that many of today's so-called 'new nuclear threats' are in fact not new at all. His book offers a sobering reminder that we must understand the lessons of the last nuclear age before we can confront the problems of the next one. An essential guide to the ways in which nuclear weapons shape world politics today."
Todd S. Sechser, University of Virginia
"An expert guide to the significant and worrying challenges of the Third Nuclear Age: a new period in our nuclear history where the threats posed by nuclear weapons have returned to the center stage of global politics."
Andrew Futter, University of Leicester
