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Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Hoodbhoy has taught in the physics department at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad for 40 years and now also teaches at Forman Christian College in Lahore. He is a member of the Bulletin’s Board of Sponsors.


Articles by Pervez Hoodbhoy

2002: Nuclear gamblers

By Pervez Hoodbhoy | Nuclear Weapons

Another India-Pakistan crisis

By Pervez Hoodbhoy | Analysis, Nuclear Risk
Imran Khan, at the 2012 World Economic Forum. Photo by Remy Steinegger, World Economic Forum, swiss-image.ch/ .

Managing Pakistan’s Bomb: Learning on the job

By Pervez Hoodbhoy, Zia Mian | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear battles in South Asia

By Pervez Hoodbhoy, Zia Mian | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Scientists and an atomic subcontinent

By Pervez Hoodbhoy | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

What next: A Sunni bomb?

By Pervez Hoodbhoy | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Whither Pakistan? A five-year forecast

By Pervez Hoodbhoy | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Would You have Dropped the Bomb?

By Martin E. Marty, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Thomas Donnelly, Robert L. Gallucci, Gar Alperovitz, Richard B. Frank, Mary Palevsky, Tadatoshi Akiba | Uncategorized

Nuclear Gamblers

By Pervez Hoodbhoy | Uncategorized