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FBI director Kash Patel has his hands full with politicized agents and investigation of the Philip Haney and Seth Rich cases. At HHS and NIH, Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya can investigate the Dr. Fauci collaborators Joe Biden failed to pardon. Trump pick Chris Wright faces a similarly demanding task at the Department of Energy, which includes the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), tasked to maintain the security and effectiveness of  U.S. nuclear weapons and provide the U.S. Navy with nuclear propulsion.

Joe Biden’s pick for NNSA “special advisor” was Sneha Nair, who holds degrees in geography and international relations, non-scientific disciplines with little if any relation to nuclear energy. Even so, Nair became a research analyst with the Nuclear Security Program at the Stimson Center.

Sneha Nair is the lead author of “Gender Undone: Confronting Bias in the Nuclear Field,” which cites “the need for gender balance and diversity in the nuclear nonproliferation and security space.” Nair laments the “slow cultural change at nuclear facilities and organizations,” which is “in large part due to the inability of initiatives aimed at diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) to deal with the structural biases of who belongs in nuclear security.”

According to Biden’s special advisor, DEIA initiatives “have so far failed to deal with the structural biases informing antiquated perceptions of who belongs in the security space, to understand how to include more diverse candidates, or to clarify what is needed to retain women and other underrepresented groups in the field.” And as Nair concludes:

A DEIA security culture is a necessary prelude to achieving broader goals such as gender parity, stronger racial diversity, and more equitable and inclusive nuclear facilities. The nature of exclusion is intersectional, and biases are often intertwined. If the goal is to make the nuclear field truly more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible, more research is needed to understand not only how women can advance in nuclear security but also how women of color, queer women, and trans women face different barriers to entry and prosperity in the nuclear security field.

Sneha Nair is also co-author of “Queering nuclear weapons: How LGBTQ+ inclusion strengthens security and reshapes disarmament,” published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. During “Pride Month,” Nair wants readers “to understand that the visible representation and meaningful participation of queer people matters for nuclear policy outcomes. Discrimination against queer people can undermine nuclear security and increase nuclear risk. And queer theory can help change how nuclear practitioners, experts, and the public think about nuclear weapons.” As Nair also contends:

Equity and inclusion for queer people is not just a box-ticking exercise in ethics and social justice; it is also essential for creating effective nuclear policy. Studies in psychology and behavioral science show that diverse teams examine assumptions and evidence more carefully, make fewer errors, discuss issues more constructively, and better exchange new ideas and knowledge.

In addition:

Participating as oneself in the nuclear field is a right that should be extended to all. However, including the LGBTQ+ community in the nuclear field is far more than a social issue campaign. It is up to allies, people in power, and the institutions they serve to vocalize their support for LGBTQ+ inclusion, not just because it is the right thing to do, but also because queer people add value to nuclear weapons policy and discourse. Decision makers should look to LGBTQ+ inclusion for better nuclear policy outcomes, and build environments in which queer people can bring their specific skills and lived experiences to bear without fear. Arguments to the contrary are as stagnant and outdated as those who voice them.

And so on from Joe Biden’s NNSA “special assistant,” a veritable jihad of junkthought that does prove enlightening. Sneha Nair seems unaware that, as Bruce Bawer explains, “homosexuality and transgenderism are two utterly different phenomena,” and “queer” can mean anything. The LGBTQ+ formulation is a construct that serves only to divide the people into oppressed and oppressor classes, standard practice for the left.  The claim to any component of the construct is not an accomplishment, much less a job qualification, but Sneha Nair claims that “queer people have specific skills,” “add value,” and are necessarily more innovative. No word whether that applies to former Department of Energy official Sam Brinton, the female impersonator busted for stealing women’s luggage at airports.

The construct people are the ubermenschen of the woke left, promoting a noxious ideology that has no place at the National Nuclear Security Administration. All NASA hires should be on the basis of merit, professional experience, and ironclad commitment to the security of the American people. Reality dysphoria should also be a disqualifier for employment with the CIA, which Gus Hall voter John Brennan transformed into a woke, partisan force. See Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences by former CIA analyst John Gentry, and check out conditions at the National Security Agency.

Christopher Rufo and Hannah Grossman cite NSA LGBTQ+ “employee resource groups” that  “turn their kinks and pathologies into official work duties.” They did so “with full support of NSA leadership, which declared that DEI was ‘not only mission critical but mission imperative.’”

Contrary to Biden special advisor Sneha Nair, woke ideology undermines nuclear security and weakens vital agencies that protect the nation. According to this profile, Nair is now an “WMD analyst” at Applied Research Associates (ARA) in Washington. Meanwhile, at this writing Trump NIH pick Dr. Jay Bhattacharya still awaits Senate confirmation.