NonPro History
This number of states currently possess nuclear weapons (nuclear weapons stationed on their territory not included).
What is 9?
The YWINI email address
What is ywini@middlebury.edu?
This person is the current Under Secretary for Arms Control and Nonproliferation.
Who is Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins?
This 2023 film about the creation of the atomic bomb was released the same weekend as "Barbie".
What is Oppenheimer?
The United States last tested a nuclear weapon in this year.
What is 1992?
Our November event explored the ethics and impact of this emerging technology on WMD nonproliferation.
What is AI?
This "mother of AI" authored the Department of Defense's principles on ethical uses of AI, and spoke at YWINI's November event on AI and nonproliferation.
Who is Dr. Heather Roff?
This 1964 film has become a classic satire about nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear war.
What is Dr. Strangelove?
The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force in this year.
What is 2021?
YWINI hosted this event in December (in partnership with the broader MIIS community)
What is the Emerging Voices conference?
This chemist and physicist discovered polonium and radium, and now has an IAEA scholarship for women in the nuclear field in her honor.
Who is Marie Sklodowska-Curie?
This podcast, released by the Ploughshares fund, recently finished a season of episodes about "The Shadow of Oppenheimer".
What is "Press the Button"?
Under current plans, the US is projected to spend this amount per year on nuclear weapons over the next ten years.
What is $75 billion?
The founder of YWINI (who this year started a new position as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at MIT).
Who is Sarah Bidgood?
On average, women make up this percentage of delegates at multilateral nonproliferation and disarmament fora.
This speaker closed out our December "Emerging Voices Conference".
Who is Mareena Robinson Snowden? or Who is Joan Rohlfing?
This diplomat from Costa Rica was the president of the negotiating conference for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Who is Ambassador Elayne Whyte?