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Newsletter September 2025

[NEW INITIATIVE]
Disarmament Diaries

SCRAP Weapons is excited to announce its new flagship digital storytelling initiative, Disarmament Diaries. 

This series is designed to amplify diverse voices from across the global disarmament community—youth leaders, mid-career professionals, seasoned diplomats, senior experts, and thought leaders—capturing lived experiences, powerful insights, and actionable recommendations. More than just a record, Disarmament Diaries is a platform for change. By sharing perspectives from across the peace and disarmament ecosystem, we aim to spark intergenerational dialogue, fuel public engagement, inspire policy action, and bring the vital work of conflict prevention and disarmament education to a wider audience.
 
More about the initiative here:  https://scrapweapons.com/disarmament-diaries/ 

Arms and Arguments
SEPTEMBER EDITION

This September, the “Arms and Arguments” Book Club members are asking BIG questions: How do gender narratives influence nuclear policy and disarmament? We are reviewing the following:
 
  • Emily Faux (2024) “Deconstructing Barbenheimer: A Feminist Analysis of Gender and Representation of Nuclear War”
  • Laura Rose Brown and Laura Considine (2022) “Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty”
  • Roland Joffé (1989) “Fat Man and Little Boy”
  • Frank Costigliola (1997) “The Nuclear Family: Tropes of Gender and Pathology in the Western Alliance”

Read all reviews here: https://scrapweapons.com/arms-and-arguments/