Nuclear Security — Left Brain — Mareena Robinson Snowden

Project on Managing the Atom holds panel discussion on racial injustice in the nuclear field

The recent killings of unarmed Black Americans and the ensuing protests have yet again highlighted the racial injustices and structural inequalities that remain a major part of life in the United States. Institutions across the U.S. nuclear community—including the Project on Managing the Atom—have issued statements condemning systemic racism and recognizing the need to counter racial injustices. To further these discussions, this panel focused on often-overlooked issues of racial inequalities in the nuclear field. Contributors to the panel discussed race in the context of global nuclear governance, the nuclear disarmament movement, and nuclear weapons testing.

PanelMareena RobinsonOctober 29, 2020Nuclear Security, Harvard, Racism, STEM, Nuclear Engineering

RESPONSIBLE DISRUPTION: Women’s Participation, Perspectives and Power

The Ploughshares Fund Women’s Initiative held an energizing conversation via Zoom, Responsible Disruption: Women’s Participation, Perspectives and Power, Tuesday, October 20. Guest speakers were: Ambassador Laura Holgate, Mareena Robinson Snowden and Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, and the event was moderated by Ploughshares Fund president, Emma Belcher. We explored how responsible disruption leads to changing the world for the better – and how to do so in a way that is fair, responsible, safe and trustworthy.

PanelMareena RobinsonOctober 21, 2020Nuclear Engineering, Advocacy, Nuclear Security, Women in STEM, STEM, Nuclear Weapons

PONI Pathbreakers: Breaking the Nuclear Glass Ceiling

On the third episode of the PONI Pathbreakers series, former Sandia National Laboratories Director Jill Hruby and Dr. Mareena Robinson Snowden, Senior Engineer in the National Security Analysis Department at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab talk about being pioneers in their careers, nuclear proliferation, and great power competition.

MediaMareena RobinsonAugust 19, 2020CSIS, Nuclear Security, Nuclear Weapons, STEM, Women in STEM

Plotting new paths to a nuclear “yes”

Nuclear science and engineering alumna Mareena Robinson Snowden PhD '17 devises new solutions for problems of arms control and proliferation.

How to Avoid the Nuclear Apocalypse - 2019 SXSW Panel hosted by Women’s Actions for New Directions

Last month, I had the honor of participating on a panel about the history and future of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons policy, hosted by the Women’s Action for New Directions. Alongside my fellow participants - Beatrice Fihn, Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons & Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, former coordinator for threat reduction programs in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation - we discussed the changing geopolitical landscape, the decline of international cooperation on arms reduction and other tools of strategic stability, and our views on the best paths forward with respect to US and international nuclear weapons policy.

PanelMareena RobinsonMarch 8, 2019Nuclear, STEM, Nuclear Security, Panel, SXSW, Austin, Nuclear Engineering, Policy

Younger Generation Leadership Network - Plenary Meeting in Berlin, Germany

Understanding that a lack of trust and dialogue between Russia and the West is a significant obstacle to Euro-Atlantic Security, NTI and several partners in 2014 launched a unique capacity-building initiative designed to develop and foster a new generation of leaders equipped to tackle global challenges fueled by historic animosities: The Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security (YGLN).

ConferenceMareena RobinsonApril 20, 2018Transatlantic Security, Security, Nuclear Security, YGLN

MARVEL Feature: The Unstoppable Wasp #6!

MediaMareena RobinsonJune 8, 2017Advocacy, Interview, Marvel Comics, Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Security, STEM, Black in STEM

MIT Nuclear Engineering Graduate Research Expo

My poster, entitled Nuclear Warhead Monitoring: A Study into Passive Detectability, explained my work to understand the accessibility and usefulness of high energy gamma emissions that are generated naturally inside plutonium based warheads.

Disruptive Nuclear Futures Summit

On December 4,2016, I had the privilege of being invited by the N-Square Collaborative to the Disruptive Nuclear Futures Summit in Santa Fe, N.M. The goal of the summit was to convene a diverse set of experts, ranging of security to film and television, around a framing question, "How might we achieve global stability without nuclear weapons by the year 2045?"

ConferenceMareena RobinsonDecember 30, 2016Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Security, NSquare, Bill Perry

Presented Research at the 2016 Stockpile Stewardship Graduate Fellowship Program Review

This past summer I presented my research at the 2016 DOE NNSA SSGF Program Review. This fellowship has generously supported my graduate research since 2012, and provided me with a supportive network inside academia and the national labs.

Summer Symposium on Science and World Affairs

ConferenceMareena RobinsonJuly 24, 2015Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Security, Union of Concerned Scientists