Pervez Hoodbhoy

The eventual elimination of nuclear weapons requires the initiation of a robust denuclearization process, such as that suggested by Global Zero. Even if slow, this is firmly based in bringing about a realization, both at the intellectual and emotional level, that without a zero-nuke world the threat of mass extinctions will always be a very real one. As a Pakistani nuclear physicist tuned into internal political developments on the subcontinent, I can perceive this threat in more than just distant, intellectual, terms.
Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy is Chairman and Professor of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, where he has taught for over 34 years. He holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the recipient of several prizes for his contributions to mathematics, electronics, science, and education. He is visiting professor at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Maryland, Stanford University, and often lectures at U.S. and European universities and research laboratories. Hoodbhoy is author of "Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality.” He is Chairman of Mashal Books, a non-profit organization that publishes books in Urdu on social, philosophical, and scientific issues. He is a sponsor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is a member of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists.
Signatories
- Nobuyasu Abe
- Keiichiro Asao
- Jacques Attali
- Lloyd Axworthy
- Sartaj Aziz
- K. Shankar Bajpai
- Margaret Beckett
- Lawrence Bender
- Sandy Berger
- Alexander Bessmertnykh
- Ela Bhatt
- Carl Bildt
- Robert Blackwill
- Hans Blix
- Lakhdar Brahimi
- Richard Branson
- Des Browne
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Richard Burt
- Richard Butler
- Walter Menzies Campbell
- Fernando H. Cardoso
- Frank Carlucci
- Jimmy Carter
- Naresh Chandra
- Chen Haosu
- Joseph Cirincione
- Richard Cizik
- Philip Coyle
- Massimo D'Alema
- Ivo Daalder
- Jayantha Dhanapala
- Anatoli Diakov
- Lawrence Eagleburger
- Mohamed ElBaradei
- Tetsuya Endo
- Gareth Evans
- Yasuo Fukuda
- Timothy Garton Ash
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher
- Bates Gill
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Thomas Graham, Jr.
- Chuck Hagel
- Lee Hamilton
- David Hannay
- Yoshimasa Hayashi
- Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Douglas Hurd
- Lynne Hybels
- Wolfgang Ischinger
- Takahiko Ito
- Igor Ivanov
- Matake Kamiya
- Max Kampelman
- Sergei Karaganov
- Jehangir Karamat
- Khurshid Kasuri
- Yoriko Kawaguchi
- Naoki Kazama
- Bob Kerrey
- Shaharyar Khan
- Steve Killelea
- Konstantin Kosachev
- Martha Krebs
- Heinrich Kreft
- Roland Lajoie
- Anthony Lake
- Ruud Lubbers
- Mikhail Margelov
- Evgeny Maslin
- Talat Masood
- Jack Matlock
- Robert McFarlane
- Merrill McPeak
- Yoshiki Mine
- Amr Moussa
- Masashi Nishihara
- Queen Noor
- Edwin Frederick O'Brien
- David Owen
- Zhenqiang Pan
- Guangqian Peng
- George Perkovich
- Thomas Pickering
- Vladimir Pozner
- Vasantha R. Raghavan
- Fidel Ramos
- Sherry Rehman
- Alain Richard
- Malcolm Rifkind
- Mary Robinson
- Michel Rocard
- Sergey Rogov
- Henrik Salander
- Yukio Satoh
- Jack Sheehan
- Jennifer Allen Simons
- Jaswant Singh
- Jeffrey Skoll
- Javier Solana
- Song Min-soon
- K. Subrahmanyam
- Toshiyuki Takano
- Strobe Talbott
- Horst Teltschik
- John Thornton
- Desmond Tutu
- Shashindra Pal Tyagi
- Ehsan ul-Haq
- Evgeny Velikhov
- Eckart von Klaeden
- Jianmin Wu
- Noboru Yamaguchi
- Jiemian Yang
- Muhammad Yunus
- Igor Yurgens
- Uta Zapf
- Ernesto Zedillo
- Philip D. Zelikow
- Anthony Zinni








