(DailyAnswer.org) – The administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris has seemingly extended the LGBTQ+ agenda even as far as the country’s nuclear defense program, with a newly-hired official of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) saying that the U.S. needs to “queer” its nuclear weapon program.
“Finally, queer theory informs the struggle for nuclear justice and disarmament,” NNSA Special Assistant Sneha Nair wrote last year. Nair, who was taken on board the NNSA in February this year, said that queer theory “helps to shift the perception of nuclear weapons as instruments for security” and said that the development and creation of nuclear weapons caused displacement, illness, and trauma – especially towards minorities – and said that these stories were “hidden” from the public. Nair also said that diversity, equality, and inclusion policies should play a bigger role in determining the U.S.’ nuclear weapons policy.
The sentiments were authored by Nair in 2023, and published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists with the title, “Queering nuclear weapons: How LGBTQ+ inclusion strengthens security and reshapes disarmament.”
The revelation of Nair’s sentiments on the U.S. nuclear weapons policy comes on the heels of heightened tensions with China over the U.S.’ and President Biden’s decision to revise America’s Nuclear Employment Guidance to consider China a major threat to America’s national security.
The revision, which was approved by Biden in March this year, shifted the focus on China as the most immediate threat to U.S. national security, especially in terms of the Asian superpower’s rapid expansion of its nuclear weapons arsenal. The revision also took into consideration China’s close ties with other countries that the U.S. considers to be generally hostile, such as Vladimir Putin’s Russia and North Korea, which is in turn headed by military dictator Kim Jong Un. A spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, Mao Ning, said that the Chinese government was “seriously concerned” with the revision, accusing the U.S. government of creating the world’s largest nuclear threat. Ning also maintained that China’s nuclear arsenal is much smaller than that of the U.S. – regardless of the fact that China has, through the years, consistently denied to disclose the size of its nuclear arsenal.
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