Think you might be interested in a career in WMD nonproliferation? Start by looking at our list of internships, programs, and opportunities that are geared toward women or place a premium on gender balance:
Internships, Fellowships, and Opportunities
- WCAPS Youth Ambassadors Program
- WCAPS Working Group on Weapons of Mass Destruction Arms Control and Disarmament
- Council on Foreign Relations Stanton Nuclear Fellowship
- Center for Strategic & International Studies: Project on Nuclear Issues, PONI
- CNS Summer Undergraduate Nonproliferation Program
- Herbert P. Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
- Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellowship
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Darleane Christian Hoffman (DCH) Fellow
- OSCE/UNODA Women for Peace: Conflict Prevention and Resolution through Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-proliferation
- Public Policy & Nuclear Threats Bootcamp
- RAND: Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows Program
- Sandia Laboratory’s Jill Hruby Fellowship
- The Robin Copeland Memorial Fellowship
- The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program
- Women’s Action for New Directions internships
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom internships
- Women’s Foreign Policy Group Internship Program
- Brookings’ David M. Rubenstein Fellows program
- UN Office for Disarmament Affairs Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament
- The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ Women in Chemistry Symposia
- LLNL Center for Global Security Research Internships
- WIIS Next Generation Gender Peace and Security Symposium
- #NatSecGirlSquad
Scholarships
- Women in Defense HORIZONS Scholarship
- Westinghouse Women in Nuclear Scholarship
- Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) Scholarships
- The American Nuclear Society Scholarship Program
- The Society of Women Engineers Scholarships
Resources for Younger Students
- Critical Issues Forum
- Nuclear Free Schools Project
- American Nuclear Society’s Get to Know Nuclear Girl Scout Patch
- Girl Security
Interactive Resources
- CFR Campus
- US Department of Energy Coloring Book: Women of the Manhattan Project
- The Outrider Foundation: The Women Who Built the Bomb
- International Atomic Energy Agency: Women in All Things Nuclear: Then and Now
- People’s Decade for Nuclear Abolition: Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Women Speak Out for Peace
- The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ Basic Analytical Chemistry Course for Women
- BombShellToe
- Jamie Withorne. Classics. Inkstick, February 20, 2019.
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