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Ankit Panda
Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and editor-at-large at The Diplomat. Follow him on Twitter.
“Nuclear War Simulator,” a new simulation game, is an educational piece of software designed to draw its users into reflecting on the humanitarian effects of nuclear wars, including conflict with North Korea.
Nuclear weapons are thought of as tools of deterrence, but their use — while avoided in war since Aug. 1945 — remains a possibility. “Nuclear War Simulator invites its users to reflect on the conditions and consequences of use.