Mailing address
Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Hui Zhang
Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Contact:
Telephone: 617-495-5710
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: Hui_Zhang@harvard.edu
Experience
Hui Zhang is a Senior Research Associate at the Project on Managing the Atom in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Hui Zhang is leading a research initiative on China's nuclear policies for the Project on Managing the Atom in the Kennedy School of Government. His researches include verification techniques of nuclear arms control, the control of fissile material, nuclear terrorism, China's nuclear policy, nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation, policy of nuclear fuel cycle and reprocessing.
Before coming to the Kennedy School in September 1999, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University from 1997-1999, and in 1998-1999, he received a post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, a MacArthur Foundation program on International Peace and Security. From 2002-2003, he received a grant for Research and Writing from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Hui Zhang received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics in Beijing in 1996.
Dr. Zhang is the author of several technical reports and book chapters, and dozens of articles in academic journals and the print media including Science and Global Security, Arms Control Today, Bulletin of Atomic Scientist, Disarmament Diplomacy, Disarmament Forum, the Non-proliferation Review, Washington Quarterly, Journal of Nuclear Materials Management , INESAP, and China Security. Dr. Zhang gives many oral presentations and talks in international conferences and organizations.
March 22, 2012
China’s Plutonium Recycling: Policy Considerations
Presentation
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
A presentation to the International Symposium on Nuclear Security and the Korean Peninsula on the policy considerations of China's plutonium recycling plans.
March 18-23, 2012
Rethinking Chinese Policy on Commercial Reprocessing
Presentation
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
This paper will discuss the status of China’s nuclear power reactors, breeders, and civilian reprocessing programs. In addition, this paper will examine whether the breeders and civilian reprocessing programs make sense for China, taking into account costs, proliferation risks, energy security tradeoffs, health and environmental risks, and spent fuel management issues.
March, 2012
Nuclear Modernization in China
Book Chapter
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
This new, groundbreaking study by Reaching Critical Will explores in-depth the nuclear weapon modernization programmes in China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and analyzes the costs of nuclear weapons in the context of the economic crisis, austerity measures, and rising challenges in meeting human and environmental needs.
January 31, 2012
China's Underground Great Wall: Subterranean Ballistic Missiles
Op-Ed, Power & Policy Blog
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
In a post to the Belfer Center's Power and Policy blog Hui Zhang considers the purposes of China's extensive system of tunnels for ballistic missiles, known as the "Underground Great Wall"
January 16, 2012
The Defensive Nature of China's "Underground Great Wall"
Op-Ed, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
A study by Georgetown University's Phillip Karber claims that a vast network of tunnels in China, often called the "underground great wall," could hide up to 3,000 nuclear weapons. Writing in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Hui Zhang argues that the study leaps to unwarranted conclusions based on simplistic reasoning and questionable extrapolation from decades-old estimates of Chinese weapon levels. New information on fissile materials inventories and other authoritative data indicate that China has a nuclear arsenal of a few hundred weapons and that the underground great wall is meant to protect this small deterrent from a first strike.
DigitalGlobe and Google Earth
17-21 July 2011
"Reassessing China’s Military Inventory of Highly Enriched Uranium"
Conference Paper
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Hui Zhang presented his paper "Reassessing China’s Military Inventory of Highly Enriched Uranium," at the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management 52nd Annual Meeting, in Palm Spring, CA, 17-21 July 2011.
17-21 July 2011
"China’s Stockpile of Military Plutonium: A New Estimate"
Conference Paper
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Hui Zhang presented his paper "China’s Stockpile of Military Plutonium: A New Estimate," at the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management 52nd Annual Meeting, in Palm Spring, CA, 17-21 July 2011.
January-April 2011
"China's HEU and Plutonium Production and Stocks"
Journal Article, Science & Global Security, issue 1, volume 19
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Hui Zhang's article "China's HEU and Plutonium Production and Stocks" was published in the January-April 2011 issue of Science & Global Security. This article discusses the history of China’s production of highly enriched uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons and uses new public information to estimate the amount of highly enriched uranium and plutonium China produced at its two gaseous diffusion plants and two plutonium production complexes.
January 31, 2011
China's Underground Great Wall: Subterranean Ballistic Missiles
Op-Ed
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Hui Zhang considers the nuclear-related motivations for China's development of a 3,000-mile network of complex underground tunnels.
2010
"China’s Fissile Material Production and Stocks"
Report Chapter
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Hui Zhang wrote the chapter "China" in the International Panel on Fissile Materials report Global Fissile Material Report 2010: Balancing the Books.
