The Biden-Harris administration announced early this year that Sneha Nair would become a special assistant in the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration, which is the government agency charged with building the nation’s nuclear warheads and maintaining its nuclear stockpile.
What the National Nuclear Security Administration does is one of the most critical elements—and technically highly specialized—of the national security architecture that has helped keep the U.S. out of another major armed conflict since World War II.
Historically, Nair is an unusual choice for the NNSA, which she joined in February. She has advocated expanding the role of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” known as DEI, in nuclear security.
Nair suggested that DEI can help mitigate the “threat posed by some white supremacist groups” to our nuclear arsenal….
