The Program on Science and Global Security

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E-mail: zia@princeton.edu
 

Zia Mian directs the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia, at the Program on Science and Global Security. His research and teaching focuses on nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policy, especially in Pakistan and India, and on issues of nuclear disarmament and peace. Previously, he has taught at Yale University and Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, and worked at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge (Mass.), and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. He is Co-Editor of Science & Global Security, an international journal of technical analysis for arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation policy. He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM). He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

• Bridging Partition: People's Initiative for Peace between India and Pakistan
  Zia Mian and Smitu Kothari, with K. Bhasin, A.H. Nayyar, and M. Tahseen, eds., Orient Longman (New Delhi), 2010.
• Between Past and Future: Selected Essays on South Asia by Eqbal Ahmad
  Zia Mian, Dohra Ahmad and Iftikhar Ahmad, eds. Oxford University Press (Karachi, 2004).
• Out of The Nuclear Shadow   Zia Mian and Smitu Kothari eds., Zed Press (London), Lokayan and Rainbow Press (New Delhi, 2001).  Revised and updated second edition, Oxford University Press (Karachi, 2003).
• Eqbal Ahmad Kay Muntakhab Mazameen (Selected Essays of Eqbal Ahmad)
  Dohra Ahmad, Iftikhar Ahmad and Zia Mian, eds. (in urdu), Mashal Press (Lahore, 2001). 
• Making Enemies, Creating Conflict - Pakistan's Crises of State and Society
  Zia Mian and Iftikhar Ahmad, eds., Mashal Press (Lahore, 1997).
• Pakistan's Atomic Bomb And The Search For Security
  Zia Mian, ed., Gautam Publishers (Lahore, 1995).

• Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear Shadow (2001), a documentary film by Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian  Film details.
• Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India (2004), a documentary film by Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian  Film details.

• Global Fissile Material Report 2011: Nuclear Weapon and Fissile Material Stockpiles and Production
   Zia Mian, and Alexander Glaser, eds., International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), 2011.
• Global Fissile Material Report 2010: Balancing the Books
  Harold Feiveson, Alexander Glaser, Zia Mian, and Frank von Hippel, eds., International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), 2010.
• Global Fissile Material Report 2009: A Path to Nuclear Disarmament
  Harold Feiveson, Alexander Glaser, Zia Mian, and Frank von Hippel, eds., International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), 2009.
• Global Fissile Material Report 2008: Scope and Verification of a Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty Harold Feiveson, Alexander Glaser, Zia Mian, and Frank von Hippel, eds., International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) 2008.
• Global Fissile Material Report 2007
  Harold Feiveson, Alexander Glaser, Zia Mian, and Frank von Hippel, eds., International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), 2007.
• Global Fissile Material Report 2006 
  Harold Feiveson, Alexander Glaser, Zia Mian, and Frank von Hippel, eds., International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), 2006.
• Fissile Materials in South Asia:The Implications of the US-India Nuclear Deal
  Zia Mian, A. H. Nayyar, R. Rajaraman, and M. V. Ramana, Research Report #1, International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), September 2006.

• America's Pakistan, by Zia Mian and Sharon K. Weiner, Middle East Report Online, March 2012
• "Pakistan", in " Assuring Destruction Forever: Nuclear Weapon Modernization Around the World", edited by Ray Acheson (Reaching Critical Will, New York, March, 2012).
• Pakistan, the Army and the Conflict Within, by Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian, Middle East Report Online, July 12, 2011
• The Enduring Power of Mass Production, Mass Consumption and Mass Destruction, by Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana, Development, Volume 54, No. 2, 2011.
• Imbricated Regional Rivalries and Global Order: South Asia, China and the United States, by Zia Mian and M.V. Ramana, Paper for Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, Washington DC, July 2010.
• Charting a Path toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists online, 27 September 2010. 
• Obama’s Nuclear Postures, Middle East Report Online, 5 July 2010. 
• Towards a Fissile Material (Cut-off) Treaty, in Beyond Arms Control: Challenges and Choices for Nuclear Disarmament, Ray Acheson, ed., Reaching Critical Will, New York, 2010. 
• It’s Time to Give Up on Breeder Reactors, by Thomas Cochran, Harold Feiveson, Zia Mian, M. V. Ramana, Mycle Schneider and Frank von Hippel, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2010.  
• Playing the Nuclear Game: Pakistan and the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty
  By Zia Mian and A.H. Nayyar, Arms Control Today, April 2010
• 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.
• Time to Ban Production of Materials for Nuclear Weapons
  By Alexander Glaser, Zia Mian and Frank von Hippel, Scientific American online, January 2010
• Beyond the Security Debate: The Moral and Legal Dimensions of Abolition
  in Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate, George Perkovich and James Acton, eds., Carnegie Endowment (Washington DC) , 2009.  
• 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.  
• 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. 
• Exploring Uranium Resource Constraints on Fissile Material Production in Pakistan
  By Zia mian, A.H. Nayyar and R. Rajaraman), Science & Global Security, vol. 17, 2009.
• A Frightening Nuclear Legacy
  Zia Mian and A. Glaser, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 64 (4), September/October 2008, pp. 42-47.
• Going MAD: Ten Years of the Bomb in South Asia
  By Zia Mian and M.V. Ramana, Economic and Political Weekly, June 28- July 5, 2008.
• Resource Letter PSNAC-1: Physics and Society: Nuclear Arms Control By Zia Mian and Alexander Glaser, American Journal of Physics, 75 (12), December 2007.
• 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.
• The Empire of Fear in Selling US Wars, A. Vanaik, ed., Olive Branch Press (Northampton), 2007.  Published in India, as Masks of Empire, A. Vanaik, ed., Tulika Books (New Delhi, 2007). English version of chapter      Spanish version of chapter      English link to book        Spanish link to book
• Life in a Nuclear Powered Crowd
  Zia Mian and Alexander Glaser, INESAP Information Bulletin, Issue No. 26, June 2006.
• The American Problem – The United States and Noncompliance in the World of Arms Control and Nonproliferation in International Law and Organization: Closing the Compliance Gap, Edward C. Luck and Michael W. Doyle, eds., Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham), 2004.
• Nuclear Civil Defence in South Asia:Is It Feasible?
  R. Rajaraman , Zia Mian , A. H. Nayyar, Economic and Political Weekly , November 2004.  
• Making Weapons, Talking Peace
  Zia Mian, A.H. Nayyar, M. V. Ramana, Economic and Political Weekly, July 2004.  
• Early Warning in South Asia – Constraints and Implications
  Zia Mian, R. Rajaraman and M.V. Ramana, Science & Global Security, Vol. 11, No.2, 2003.
• An Initial Analysis of 85Kr Production and Dispersion from Reprocessing in India and Pakistan
  Zia Mian and A.H. Nayyar, Science and Global Security, vol. 10, No. 3, September-December 2002.
• Possession and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia: An Assessment of Some Risks
  Zia Mian, R. Rajaraman and M.V. Ramana, Economic and Political Weekly, June 2002.  
• A Nuclear Tiger by the Tail: Some Problems of Command and Control in South Asia
  Zia Mian,  Center for Energy and Environmental Studies Report No. 328,   Princeton University June 2001.
• A Proposal for an International Framework Convention on Fissile Materials  Zia Mian, April, 2000.
• "Some Issues Associated with Pakistan's Karachi Nuclear Power Plan (KANUPP)" Working Paper #51, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, 2000.
• Pakistan's Chashma Nuclear Power Plant: A Preliminary Study Of Some Safety Issues And Estimates Of The Consequences Of A Severe Accident
  Zia Mian and A.H. Nayyar, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies Report, no. 321, Princeton University, December 1999.
• The Politics of South Asia's Nuclear Crisis
  Zia Mian, Medicine & Global Survival, Vol. 5, No. 2, October, 1998