Susi Snyder is an expert on nuclear weapons, with over two decades experience working at the intersect between nuclear weapons and human rights. She currently works as the programme coordinator for ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Writing on nuclear weapons & private sector
Susi coordinated the Don’t Bank on the Bomb research and campaign from 2013. Susi continues to support the Don’t Bank on the Bomb publications, including At Great Cost: The companies building nuclear weapons and their financiers (2025), Untenable investments: Nuclear weapon producers and their financiers (2024) and Moving Away from Mass Destruction (2023). She was the primary author for many of the publications in the Don’t Bank on the Bomb series including: 101 investors say no to nuclear weapons (2022), Perilous Profiteering: The companies building nuclear arsenals and their financial backers (2021), Producing mass destruction: Private companies and the nuclear weapons industry (2019); Shorting our security- Financing the companies that make nuclear weapons (2019).
Nuclear weapons spending analysis
In addition to the annual Don’t Bank on the Bomb reports, Susi has also authored work on global nuclear spending and private sector contracts, including: Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024 (2025), Surge: 2023 Global nuclear weapons spending (2024), Wasted: 2022 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending (2023), Squandered: 2021 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending (2022), Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending (2020).
A selection of other writing
Susi has also written a guide to Digital Diplomacy Dos and Don’ts (2020); Nuclear weapons and the digital age; what now? (2020); Banned but Allied: Next steps for NATO Alliance members after the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2018); Escalating tensions: The perfect time to negotiate the outlaw and elimination of nuclear weapons(2015); Dealing with a ban (2015); The Rotterdam Blast: The immediate humanitarian consequences of a 12 kiloton nuclear explosion (2014); ‘Disarm, dismantle and make a profit: A cost-benefit analysis of nuclear modernisation versus nuclear disarmament’ (2013), and Withdrawal Issues: What NATO countries say about the future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe (2011).
Book contributions
Susi has also contributed to a number of recent books, including Forbidden, Receiving Pope Francis’s Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons (2023), A World Free from Nuclear Weapons (2020), War and Environment Reader (2018) and Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation (2017).
Media appearances
She has been featured in Project Syndicate, CNBC, 360 Magazine, Quartz, the Intercept, Huffington Post, U.S. News and World Report, and on Democracy Now (among others). Media appearances have included the Guardian, and on Deutche Welle, and Al Jazeera.
She was a guest on Al Jazeera’s Inside Edition talking about the May 2025 escalating tensions between India and Pakistan. She was also featured in TRT World during the Israeli attacks on Iran in June 2025.
Previous roles
Susi formerly served on the International Steering Group of the 2017 Nobel Prize winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and was its President at the time of the Nobel Prize award.
Susi was a Foreign Policy Interrupted/ Bard College Fellow in 2020 and a 2016 Nuclear Free Future Award Laureate. Previously, she worked as humanitarian disarmament programme lead and managed the nuclear disarmament programme at PAX in the Netherlands and before that she served as the Secretary General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom at their Geneva secretariat.
Susi was named Hero of Las Vegas in 2001 for her work with Indigenous populations against US nuclear weapons development and nuclear waste dumping. Mrs. Snyder currently lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands with her husband and son. For more about Susi, check out her Storycorps interview.