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Peyman Asadzade

Peyman Asadzade is a postdoctoral fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom and the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.


Articles by Peyman Asadzade

A soldier wearing a gas mask.

Iraq once devastated Iran with chemical weapons as the world stood by. Governments still struggle to respond to chemical warfare

By Peyman Asadzade | Biosecurity

A majority of Iranians now favor possessing nuclear weapons. Their leaders take note.

By Peyman Asadzade | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons