Ankit Panda on why we need to get serious about the catastrophic threat of nuclear weapons

Nuclear expert Ankit Panda says we have entered a new threat level, both from the major powers and from non-state actors. He says eighty years since Nagaski, policies of nuclear deterrence are no longer enough to deal with the increasing prospect of nuclear escalation, and that world leaders need to urgently re-focus their efforts on disarmament strategies. 

• GUEST: Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon, published by Polity. 
• PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer