Sunday Jonah

Jonah is a professor of physics at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. He earned his doctorate in nuclear physics in 1995 through a combined program of Ahmadu Bello University and Hungary's University of Debrecen. He has served as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and as a visiting scholar at Argonne National Laboratory and at Italy's International Center for Theoretical Physics.

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Articles by Sunday Jonah

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
14 June 2012

A tale of two treaties?

Naeem Ahmad SalikAdel M. AliSunday Jonah

Before the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) came into force in 1970, concerned scientists made dire predictions about the rate at which nuclear weapons would spread around the globe. Thanks in part to the treaty, the gloomiest scenarios have been avoided.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
14 June 2012

Real threats, real solutions

Sunday Jonah

The authors in this Roundtable have all argued, albeit in different ways, that significant changes should be made to the global nonproliferation regime in order to achieve the goals set out in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
24 May 2012

Expanded powers, greater security

Sunday Jonah

One thing on which all participants in this Roundtable agree is that certain elements of the noproliferation regime require fundamental strengthening.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
3 May 2012

Needed: a bigger toolbox for the IAEA

Sunday Jonah

The basic aims of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are fairly straightforward: to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons; to provide assurances, through international safeguards, that peaceful nuclear activities will not lead to the production of nuclear weapons; to promote, to the maxi