MV Ramana

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MV Ramana (* 1966 in Palakkad ) is an Indian physicist who deals with questions of nuclear policy.

Ramana grew up in Madras , studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and received her PhD in physics from Boston University in 1994 and was a post-doctoral student at the University of Toronto and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Center for International Studies). From 1998 he was at Princeton University . There he is in the Science and Global Security program and at the Nuclear Futures Laboratory and deals with the future of nuclear energy in the context of climate change and nuclear disarmament and nuclear proliferation.

He is a member of the International Panel of Fissile Materials and is on the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists .

From 2004 to 2009 he worked at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development in Bangalore .

In 2014 Ramana received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award with Ramamurti Rajaraman .

Fonts

  • The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India, Penguin 2012
  • Editor with C. Rammanohar Reddy: Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream, New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003
  • 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

Web links

Individual evidence

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