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Past Event
Seminar

Pakistan's Bomb: Development and Current Implications

RSVP Required Open to the Public

Speaker: Dr. Mansoor Ahmed, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for International Strategic Studies in Islamabad, Pakistan

Discussants: Dr. Mayumi Fukushima, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom and the International Security Program, Belfer Center

Dr. Steven E. Miller, Director of the International Security Program, Belfer Center

The Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) hosts a reflective and policy-oriented discussion focused on Pakistan's development of its nuclear arsenal and implications for South Asian security today.

For members of the public (HUID and non-HUID holders), please register for the Zoom webinar event here. You will be able to watch the event live through Zoom.

For those who wish to attend in-person (HUID holders only), please register for a seat in the conference room here.

While this virtual event is on the record, the event organizers prohibit any attendees, including journalists, from audio/visual recording or distributing parts or all of the event program without prior written authorization. 

Date: Time: - Location: Room 434 A-B
Shaheen-III and Ghauri missiles displayed during a military parade to mark Pakistan's National Day in Islamabad in March 2022

Speaker Bios

Panelists Include:

Dr. Mansoor Ahmed is a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for International Strategic Studies in Islamabad, Pakistan as well as a project associate and visiting fellow with the Third Nuclear Age Project at the University of Leicester. He is a former Stanton Nuclear Security junior faculty fellow (2015-16) and postdoctoral research fellow (2016-18) with the International Security Program and Managing the Atom project at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. He also served as a lecturer in the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, from 2011-2015.

Dr. Mayumi Fukushima is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom and the International Security Program. Her research interests include international security alliances, nuclear nonproliferation, and international security in East Asia. Her research has been published in International Affairs, The National Interest, and The American Interest, among others, and it has been supported by various organizations including the Stanton Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Murata Science Foundation. She was recently a postdoctoral Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow with the RAND Corporation in 2020-21 and a Smith Richardson Foundation predoctoral fellow at Yale University's International Security Studies Program in 2018-19. She earned a Ph.D. in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2020. Prior to her Ph.D. training, she served as a fast-track career diplomat (deputy director) at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dr. Steven E. Miller is Director of the International Security Program, Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal, International Security and also co-editor of the International Security Program's book series, Belfer Center Studies in International Security (which is published by the MIT Press). Previously, he was Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and taught Defense and Arms Control Studies in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Miller is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he is a member of their Committee on International Security Studies (CISS). He received a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. 

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