# Contact — Ankit Panda

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**Media.** For interviews and comment, email me directly. I try to respond to deadline requests the same day. Unfortunately, due to cybersecurity concerns, I am generally unable to respond to inquiries from journalists coming from non-official email addresses. (If you're a freelancer, I recommend dual-phenomenology: email me and DM me on LinkedIn or social media to tell me it's you.)

If you need a bio, please use the one below. My headshot is [here](/images/headshot.jpg).

  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*](https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/The+New+Nuclear+Age%3A+At+the+Precipice+of+Armageddon-p-9781509557462) (Polity, 2025), [*Indo-Pacific Missile Arsenals: Avoiding Spirals and Mitigating Risks*](https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2023/10/indo-pacific-missile-arsenals-avoiding-spirals-and-mitigating-escalation-risks?lang=en) (Carnegie, 2023), and [*Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea*](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/kim-jong-un-and-the-bomb-9780190060367?cc=us\&lang=en&) (Hurst/Oxford, 2020).

  Panda regularly engages prominent organizations around the world on his research, including multiple governments, intergovernmental organizations, U.S. combatant commands, and intelligence bodies. He has testified before the congressionally chartered U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. Before joining Carnegie, Panda was an adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and a journalist covering international security.

  Panda is a frequent expert commentator in print and broadcast media around the world on nuclear policy and defense matters. His work has appeared in or been featured by the *New York Times*, the *New Yorker*, the *Economist*, the *Financial Times*, the *Wall Street Journal*, the *Washington Post*, *Foreign Affairs*, *Foreign Policy*, the *Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists*, the *Atlantic*, the *New Republic*, the *South China Morning Post, Politico*, and the *National Interest*. Panda has also published in scholarly journals, including *Survival*, the *Washington Quarterly*, and *India Review*, and authored numerous book chapters. He is editor-at-large at the *Diplomat*, where he hosts the [*Asia Geopolitics*](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asia-geopolitics/id852773346) podcast, and a contributing editor at *War on the Rocks*, where he hosts [*Thinking the Unthinkable With Ankit Panda*](https://warontherocks.com/premium/thinkingtheunthinkable/), a podcast on nuclear matters*.*

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