Out of the Nuclear Shadow

Smitu Kothari (1950-2009) was one of India’s leading scholar activists. He was director of Lokayan, New Delhi, and co-editor of the Lokayan Bulletin, a journal of political, cultural and ecological struggles in South Asia. He founded Intercultural Resources, a forum for research and political intervention on the impacts and alternatives to destructive development. He was a visiting professor at Cornell University and at Princeton University.

Zia Mian is a physicist from Pakistan at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, and a visiting fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. He teaches at Princeton University and has taught at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He is affiliated with the Eqbal Ahmad Foundation.