Nuclear Weapons — Left Brain — Mareena Robinson Snowden

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

Probabilistic Verification: A New Concept for Verifying the Denuclearization of North Korea

Although U.S.-North Korean talks have stalled, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has abided by an apparent moratorium on nuclear testing, keeping alive hopes that an agreement can be reached to denuclearize North Korea. Implementing such an agreement with North Korea, if one can be negotiated, would constitute an unprecedented challenge for the international community.

Verifying such an agreement would require building a monitoring regime that goes well beyond traditional international safeguards and bilateral arms control approaches while accommodating legitimate North Korean concerns over intrusiveness, which would practically preclude “anytime, anywhere” inspections. Creativity will be needed to design a verification scheme to which the United States and North Korea could agree and that could be implemented in affordable and practical ways and that politicians would deem credible.

"White, Male, and Yale?" How Women of Color are Changing National Security

As women of color take the lead in national security, how are they changing the conversation and the culture of the foreign policy community? Jen Psaki of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace talks to Mareena Robinson Snowden and Bonnie Jenkins about their careers in nuclear policy, how more diverse voices lead to better policy outcomes, and how the culture of the national security community must grow to better foster inclusion and representation.

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.

NNSA Graduate Fellow Feature - NNSA Blog

Discussing my experience as an NNSA Fellow working on issues surrounding nuclear weapon modernization and deterrence

MediaMareena RobinsonJanuary 17, 2018Policy, Nuclear Engineering, NGFP, NNSA, DOE, Nuclear Weapons, Interview

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