Understanding the Iran Deal, Zia Mian, Princeton University physicist, peace activist

Understanding the Iran Deal

Thursday 3 September | 7 PM

Germantown Friends School, Yarnall Auditorium

31 West Coulter Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144

What are the major components of the recently concluded and highly contentious Iranian nuclear agreement?  And what are its implications for nuclear nonproliferation in the region and the long term prospects for peace in the Middle East?

Zia Mian, a physicist and peace activist at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, will be addressing these concerns directly under the auspices of the Germantown Friends Meeting’s Adult Class Committee on Thursday, September 3, beginning at 7:00 pm at the Yarnall Auditorium in the Sharpless Building on the Germantown Friends School campus.

Sponsor: Germantown Friends Meeting

Co-Sponsors: American Friends Service Committee, Brandywine Peace Community, Coalition for Peace Action, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR, Philadelphia), Jewish Voice for Peace (Philadelphia), Tikkun Olam Chavurah, UN Association of Philadelphia.

 Invite link: https://www.facebook.com/events/855205207897602/

About the Speaker…

Zia Mian is a physicist with Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, where he has been a member of staff since 1997. His research and teaching focuses on nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policy. He has been part of the Iran project at the Program since 2010.

He is the co-chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), a group of technical and policy experts from 18 countries working to reduce global stockpiles of nuclear weapon-useable material. He also 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 Board of the Arms Control Association in Washington DC.

Mian received 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 and for a more peaceful world.”

His most recent book is Unmaking the Bomb: A Fissile Material Approach to Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation (with Harold Feiveson, Alexander Glaser, and Frank von Hippel, MIT Press, 2014).