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Zia Mian

Zia Mian is a physicist and co-director of Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. A fellow of the American Physical Society, he received the 2019 Leo Szilard Award “for promoting global peace and nuclear disarmament” and 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.” Mian is co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Group of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and a co-founder of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. He is on the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists and a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.


Articles by Zia Mian

Nuclear danger is growing. Physicists of the world, unite!

By Curtis T. Asplund, Zia Mian, Stewart Prager, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Weapons
The NPT Preparatory Committee begins meeting on July 22 at the Vienna International Centre.

Bombs away: Confronting the deployment of nuclear weapons in non-nuclear weapon countries

By Moritz Kütt, Pavel Podvig, Zia Mian | Nuclear Weapons

Taking the nuclear ban treaty forward

By Zia Mian | Collections, Nuclear Weapons
Bruce Blair at the 2010 Global Zero Summit in Paris.

Bruce Blair: Challenging the accidental nuclear war machine at every turn

By Jessica Sleight, Zia Mian, Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons
Excerpt from Albert Einstein letter, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, December 1946

Physicists mobilize to reduce the nuclear threat. Again.

By Stewart Prager, Steve Fetter, Alexander Glaser, Zia Mian, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons
Imran Khan of Pakistan (left) and Narenda Modi of India

India, Pakistan, Kashmir: Taking the war option off the table

By Zia Mian, Abdul H. Nayyar, Sandeep Pandey, M.V. Ramana | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons
Genbaku Dome, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and no first use

By Elaine Scarry, Zia Mian | Analysis, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons
An anti-nuclear weapons protest march, Oxford, England, 1980. Photo credit: Kim Traynor

The INF Treaty and the crises of arms control

By Zia Mian | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, The INF Treaty and the Future of Arms Control
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
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On the 20th anniversary of the 1998 nuclear tests by India and Pakistan

By Zia Mian, M.V. Ramana | Uncategorized

After the nuclear weapons ban treaty: A new disarmament politics

By Zia Mian | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Kashmir, climate change, and nuclear war

By Zia Mian | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons