Signatories

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.