CV NEWS FEED // A nuclear security official in the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) advocated for “queering nuclear weapons” in an article she co-wrote last year.
“[Q]ueer theory can help change how nuclear practitioners, experts, and the public think about nuclear weapons,” Sneha Nair and Louis Reitmann wrote in a June 2023 piece for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
The article is titled “Queering nuclear weapons: How LGBTQ+ inclusion strengthens security and reshapes disarmament.”
Nair currently serves as a Special Assistant in the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), an agency of the DOE.
“Queer identity is also relevant for the nuclear field because it informs theories that aim to change how officials, experts, and the public think about nuclear weapons,” Nair and her co-author continued:
Queer theory… shines a light on the harm done by nuclear weapons through uranium mining, nuclear tests, and the tax money spent on nuclear weapons … instead of on education, infrastructure, and welfare. The queer lens prioritizes the rights and well-being of people over the abstract idea of national security, and it challenges the mainstream understanding of nuclear weapons—questioning whether they truly deter nuclear war, stabilize geopolitics, and reduce the likelihood of conventional war.
“Queer theory asks: Who created these ideas?” the article continued. “And whose experiences are being excluded? Queer theory also identifies how the nuclear weapons discourse is gendered.”
In a separate article Nair penned two months earlier, she wrote: “Unfortunately, the nuclear field … has historically lacked diversity. This includes racial representation, gender, sexuality, and other marginalized demographics.”
The April 2023 piece is titled “Converging Goals: Examining the Intersection Between Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [DEI] and Nuclear Security Implementation.”
“Creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive nuclear security culture requires organizations to ensure that DEI is seen as a critical component of security throughout the organization, from the executives to the guard force,” she wrote in the same article.
In addition to her advocacy for DEI and the LGBTQ movement, Nair has also pushed for far-left racial policies in her past writings.
“Imagining anti-racist U.S. foreign policy in action starts with acknowledging the effects of systemic racism and white supremacy on policymaking and finding ways to prevent it from persisting,” Nair wrote in an undated piece for the left-wing think tank New America:
Centering antiracism as a core principle of U.S. foreign policy would mean leaders, both in government and civil society, acknowledging both systemic racism and white supremacy as structural drivers of decision-making and policy outcomes. … An anti-racist foreign policy shifts the focus away from an idealized, white image of the United States, to a more realistic representation of the population, both in the interests it represents and the people making decisions.
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In February, the Biden-Harris DOE announced that Nair was joining the Department, alongside four other newly hired officials.
The DOE wrote at the time: “With these new hires and recent promotions, DOE appointees continue to make up an historically diverse team with 60% women, 57% people of color, and 25% of staff identifying as LGBTQ+.
Nair is not the first controversial DEI-aligned employee to serve in the Biden-Harris DOE for a role concerned with nuclear weapons.
CatholicVote reported last September:
Police executing a search warrant found stolen clothing in the home of Sam Brinton, an anti-Catholic LGBTQ activist and alleged kleptomaniac who once held a position in the Biden administration’s [DOE].
While police were searching Brinton’s residence, they found clothes that were reportedly lost five years ago by fashion designer Asya Khamsin at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, VA.
Brinton identifies as “non-binary” and is well known for being accused of stealing women’s luggage at airports on multiple occasions.
