About the event: In recent years, a series of initiatives have emerged with the aim to advance
women’s participation in the nuclear weapons field. These initiatives are informed by two
assumptions. Women are missing, and women’s inclusion can bring change. Currently,
empirical evidence is missing to support either of the two assumptions. Systematically
collected data is lacking on the number of women working in the nuclear weapons field.
Women's experiences have been recorded only anecdotally and the impact of women's
increased participation remains unclear. The Women and the Bomb project collects the
missing data. It studies the roles, experiences and views of women in various sectors of the
US nuclear weapons field, including government departments and agencies, national nuclear
laboratories, the military and non-governmental organizations.

About the speaker: Jana Wattenberg is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Aberystwyth University
(funded by UKRI). She is also a visiting scholar at American University (Washington DC), a
Lecturer in Security at Aberystwyth University and a Senior Fellow with Women in
International Security.