Dear all:

The Economic Security Intelligence Lab (ESIL) at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo is pleased to co-host a public seminar with the The Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS) at Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) titled: 

Japan in the New Nuclear Age: 

In Search of Stability in an Uncertain World

We will feature Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the Nuclear Policy Program. 

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 Europe to East Asia, the world has been thrust into a new era of heightened nuclear risk. Moreover, 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. How much of this new nuclear age is really "new"? What are the ways in which states can work to mitigate the worst risks? 

He will share these insights based on his latest book: The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon (Polity, 2025).

The seminar will be conducted in English, and pre-registration is required to participate.
 
 【 Event Details】

• Date: July 8, 2025

• Time: 15:30-16:30 (Registration opens at 15:00)

• Language: English

• Venue: 2nd Floor Conference Hall, Building #4, Komaba II Campus, RCAST, The University of Tokyo (4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904 JAPAN)

• *Please note: This venue is located on the Komaba II Campus, not the Komaba I Campus.

【Registration Link】

https://forms.gle/GoKknMMrydeZ4SUc7

＊Note: For security reasons, participants who do not provide complete and accurate information regarding their identity, affiliation, and position may not be admitted.

【 Speaker】

Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research interests include nuclear strategy, escalation, missiles and missile defense, space security, and U.S. alliances. He 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). Panda is co-editor of New Approaches to Verifying and Monitoring North Korea's Nuclear Arsenal (Carnegie, 2021).

Panda has consulted for the United Nations in New York and Geneva, and his analysis has been sought by U.S. Strategic Command, Space Command, and Indo-Pacific Command. Panda is among the most highly cited experts worldwide on North Korean nuclear capabilities. He has testified on matters related to South Korea and Japan before the congressionally chartered U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Panda has also testified before 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 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 has contributed to the IISS Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment and Strategic Survey. He is editor-at-large at the Diplomat, where he hosts the Asia Geopolitics podcast, and a contributing editor.

【 Moderator】

Akira Igata is a Project Lecturer and heads the Economic Security Intelligence Lab (ESIL) at RCAST, the University of Tokyo. He holds affiliations with several international think tanks and policy institutions, including the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), Pacific Forum (PF), Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), the National Security College at the Australian National University (NSC, ANU), the European Values Center for Security Studies (EVC), and the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).

As always, we will make sure to leave plenty of time for Q&A with the audience.
We look forward to seeing you all there.

Best Regards,
Akira