My name is Ryan Evans and this new music is for a new show that we're

previewing on this feed called Thinking the Unthinkable with Ankey

Panda, the Carnegie Endowment. You should expect Ankye to challenge your views,

whether you are a nuclear hawk or a nuclear dove,

whether you're an arms controller, or the opposite.

Ankye will be having a ton of great guests on a show,

much like Mike Kaufman does on his show,

The Russian Contingency.

Think about this as that, but for nuclear issues.

So I hope you enjoy my first discussion with Anke. I asked him to begin by identifying three reasons why it's important to have a new show on nuclear issues now.

Give me three reasons why now is the time for a new show on nuclear issues?

First, I think when we look around the world,

we see nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence

coming to the fore of international statecraft and strategy

in a way that we really haven't in the three decades since the end of the Cold War.

The second thing I would say is the advent of new technologies fundamentally I think is leading a lot of folks who work on these issues to rethink longstanding

assumptions about what it takes to truly afford strategic stability.

And then third in the regional context when we look at the potentiality for nuclear

crises being in South Asia in Eastern Europe or in the

Taiwan Strait we see the salience of nuclear weapons and potentially limited nuclear

use scenarios becoming a lot more contemplable than they were in the past.

And I think that's really why Ryan, this is exactly the right time to bring nuclear weapons to the forefront.

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