Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy has taught at the department of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University since 1973 and now also teaches at the School of Science and Engineering (LUMS). He received a PhD in nuclear physics from MIT, as well as degrees in mathematics, electrical engineering, and physics from MIT. He was awarded the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics, the Baker Award for Electronics, and the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science. His research interests lie in theoretical high-energy physics. He was a Council member of Pugwash, and is a sponsor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. As an advocate of the scientific method, he authored 'Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality'. As producer and presenter, he made several documentary series for Pakistan Television aimed at popularizing science as well as for analyzing the Pakistani education system. He heads a book publishing organization in Lahore focusing on modern thought and human rights

Contributors:

Mathew McKinzie is a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Washington, DC. He works in its nuclear program, which seeks elimination of nuclear weapons left over from the Cold War era. In addition, he works in the NRDC's lands and wildlife program on wilderness and renewable energy issues. Matthew earned his bachelor's degree in physics from Bard College, and doctorate in experimental nuclear physics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Zia Mian holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He directs the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia, at Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security. His research interests include nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policy in South Asia, and issues of nuclear disarmament and peace. Earlier, he taught at Yale University and Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He worked at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge (Mass.) and was a Fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. He is Editor of Science & Global Security, an international journal for peer-reviewed scientific and technical studies relating to arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation policy. In addition to his scholarly articles, he is the editor of several books and has helped make two documentary films on peace and security in South Asia.

Abdul Hameed Nayyar is visiting professor at the School of Science and Engineering at LUMS. He received his Ph.D in solid state physics from Imperial College London in 1973 and served on the faculty of Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad from 1973 until 2005. Subsequently he worked as senior research fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, as executive director of Developments In Literacy, and headed the Ali Institute for Education, Lahore. Since 1998, he has been associated with Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security as a visiting research scientist, and is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. In 2010 he was awarded the Joseph A. Burton Forum Award by the American Physical Society for contributions to society.

M.V. Ramana has a joint appointment with the Nuclear Futures Laboratory and the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Physics from Boston University in 1994, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Physics, University of Toronto and the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India (forthcoming from Viking Penguin). Before moving to Princeton University, he was a senior fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development in Bangalore. He is also on the national Coordinating Committee of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (India), a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, and on the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

R. Rajaraman is Emeritus Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Vice President of the Indian National Science Academy and Co-Chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. After his Ph.D. in 1963 from Cornell University, he was appointed as a member of its faculty and later, to that of the University of S. California and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He then returned to India to work at Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Science and finally, J.N.U. He has also been a visiting scientist at M.I.T, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, and CERN. His physics research spans nuclear theory, particle physics, quantum field theory, solitons and Hall systems. His work on nuclear policy issues deals with minimal deterrence, capping nuclear arsenals, fissile material production, nuclear civil defense, and the Indo-US Nuclear Deal.

Suvrat Raju is a physicist and an activist based in Allahabad. He received his PhD in theoretical high energy physics from Harvard University in 2008, and subsequently returned home to work at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute. He is active with the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace. He has worked with the peace movement both in India and the United States, on the issues of land rights and democratic rights in India, and has also been associated with the solidarity movements for Venezuela, Cuba and Nepal.

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Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out

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