M. V. Ramana is professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security[1] at the University of British Columbia, and Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues, at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.[2]Aphysicist by training, he previously worked at the Nuclear Futures Laboratory and the Program on Science and Global Security, both at Princeton University. Ramana is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, the Canadian Pugwash Group,[3] the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group,[4] and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report.
Ramana has written many papers and is the author of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India (Penguin Books, 2012).[5][6][7][8] He is co-editor of Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003) and author of Bombing Bombay? Effects of Nuclear Weapons and a Case Study of a Hypothetical Explosion (Cambridge, MA: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1999).[9]
Fissile materials in South Asia and the implications of the US-India nuclear deal, Science and Global Security, 2006, 14 (2-3), 117-143
Nuclear power: Economic, safety, health, and environmental issues of near-term technologies, Annual Review of Environment and Resources 34, 2009, 127-152
Economics of nuclear power from heavy water reactors, Economic and Political Weekly, 2005,1763-1773
Fast breeder reactor programs: History and status, International Panel on Fissile Materials Research Report, 8, 2010
Nuclear power and the public, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2011, 67 (4), 43-51
India, Pakistan and the Bomb, Scientific American, 2001, 285 (6), 60-71
Weapon-grade plutonium production potential in the Indian prototype fast breeder reactor, Science and Global Security, 2007, 15 (2), 85-105
Beyond our imagination: Fukushima and the problem of assessing risk, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2011, 19 April
Early Warning in South Asia—Constraints and Implications, Science & Global Security, 2003, 11 (2-3), 109-150
Nuclear Power in India: Failed Past, Dubious Future, 2007, Available at www. npec-web. org/Frameset. asp
The risks and consequences of nuclear war in South Asia, Out of the Nuclear Shadow, edited by S. Kothari, and Z. Mian, 2001, 185-196
Costing plutonium: Economics of reprocessing in India, International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 2007, 27 (4), 454-471
The nuclear confrontation in South Asia, SIPRI Yearbook 2003: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, 195-212
Nuclear power and the public. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 2011;67(4):43-51. doi:10.1177/0096340211413358
