Zia Mian is a physicist and co-director of Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, part of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he has worked since 1997. He also directs the Program’s Project on Peace and Security in South Asia. Previously, he has taught at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, and worked at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. His research interests include issues of nuclear arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament and international peace and security. He is co-editor of Science & Global Security, the international technical journal of arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament and also co-chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), an eighteen-country independent group of experts working to strengthen policy initiatives to end production and eliminate stockpiles of plutonium and highly enriched uranium, the key ingredients for nuclear weapons. He received the 2014 Linus Pauling Legacy Award for “his accomplishments as a scientist and as a peace activist in contributing to the global effort for nuclear disarmament and for a more peaceful world.” He received the American Physical Society’s 2019 Leo Szilard Award “For promoting global peace and nuclear disarmament particularly in South Asia, through academic research, public speaking, technical and popular writing and organizing efforts to ban nuclear weapons.”
Details about his work and writings can be seen here.
Nuclear Weapons Issues
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After The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty: A New Disarmament Politics, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 2017.
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Assuring Destruction Forever, Zia Mian, Pakistan, in Allison Pytlak (ed.), Reaching Critical Will, 2018.
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“Challenging the Dominance of Nuclear Weapon States: Q&A with Zia Mian,” Global Observatory of the International Peace Institute, 14 April 2016.
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“Changing Nuclear Thinking in Pakistan” by Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian, Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, February 2014.
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Charting a Path toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists online, 27 September 2010.
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“Fevered with Dreams of the Future: The Coming of the Atomic Age to Pakistan” in “South Asia Cultures of the Bomb,” Itty Abraham, ed., Indiana University Press (Bloomington), 2009.
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Inching Back From a Nuclear Holocaust, Newsline Magazine, February 2018 Edition.
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India, Pakistan, Kashmir: Taking the War Option off the Table by Zia Mian, A. H. Nayyar, S. Pandey, M. V. Ramana, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 23, 2019.
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“Kashmir, Climate Change, and Nuclear War,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 7 December 2016.
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Nuclear Submarines in South Asia: New Risks and Dangers, Zia Mian, M. V. Ramana, and A. H. Nayyar, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2 (1), June 11, 2019.
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“Obama’s Nuclear Postures,” Middle East Report Online, 5 July 2010.
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“Out of the Nuclear Shadow: Scientists and the Struggle Against the Bomb,” Linus Pauling Award lecture, delivered April 21, 2014.
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“Pakistan, in “Assuring Destruction Forever: Nuclear Weapon Modernization Around the World”, edited by Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will, New York, March, 2012.
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“Pakistan’s Atomic Bomb And The Search For Security” by Zia Mian, ed., Gautam Publishers (Lahore, 1995).
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“Playing the Nuclear Game: Pakistan and the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty” by Zia Mian and A.H. Nayyar, Arms Control Today, April 2010.
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Scientists, the Nuclear Threat, and a Treaty To Ban Nuclear Weapons, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 31, 2018.
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The INF Treaty and the Crises of Arms Control, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 24, 2018.
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“The Limited Military Utility of Pakistan’s Battle-field Use of Nuclear Weapons in Response to Large-scale Indian Conventional Attack” by Zia Mian and A.H. Nayyar, Briefing #61, Pakistan Security Research Unit, Peace Studies Department, Bradford University, November 2010.
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The Sound And Fury And Silences Of Donald Trump, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 10, 2018.
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The Twenty Years’ Crisis of Nuclear South Asia, 1998–2018: A Workshop Report, Zia Mian, A. H. Nayyar, and M. V. Ramana, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, October 17, 2018.
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“Wanted: An End to Nuclear Nationalism in South Asia”, CTBTO Spectrum No. 20, July 2013.
Nuclear Energy
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“False Nuclear Hope,” M. V. Ramana and Zia Mian, Himal, 14 August 2016
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“Hidden Dangers” by A.H. Nayyar and Zia Mian.
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“Life in a Nuclear Powered Crowd” by Zia Mian and Alexander Glaser, INESAP Information Bulletin, Issue No. 26, June 2006.
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“Nuclear Karachi” by A.H. Nayyar, Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian, Dawn, December 16, 2013.
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“Pakistan and the Energy Challenge” by Zia Mian and A.H. Nayyar, in International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power, Lutz Mez, Mycle Schneider, and Steve Thomas, eds., Multi-Science Publishing (Brentwood), 2009.
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“Pakistan’s Chashma Nuclear Power Plant: A Preliminary Study Of Some Safety Issues And Estimates Of The Consequences Of A Severe Accident” by Zia Mian and A.H. Nayyar, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies Report, no. 321, Princeton University, December 1999.
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“Some Issues Associated with Pakistan’s Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP)” Working Paper #51, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, 2000.
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“South Asia’s Misplaced Confidence in Nuclear Technology” by Zia Mian, A.H. Nayyar, and M.V. Ramana, Dawn, 14 April 2011.
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“The Nuclear Shadow Over Karachi” by Pervez Hoodbhoy, Zia Mian and A.H. Nayyar, Newsweek-Pakistan, March 22, 2014.
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“Wrong Ends, Means, and Needs: Behind the U.S. Nuclear Deal with India” by Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana, Arms Control Today, January/February 2006.
Pakistan
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“America’s Pakistan” by Zia Mian and Sharon K. Weiner, Middle East Report Online, March 2012.
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“Making Enemies, Creating Conflict: Pakistan’s Crises of State and Society,” edited by Zia Mian and Iftikhar Ahmad, Mashal Books, 1997.
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“Pakistan, the Army and the Conflict Within” by Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian, Middle East Report Online, July 12, 2011.
Other Writings
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Articles archived at Foreign Policy In Focus (Institute for Policy Studies)
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Articles archived at the Transnational Institute
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Articles archived at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists