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Global Nuclear Order BISA Working Group @gnobisa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📢 BISA 2027 Call for Papers is open! The GNO Working Group invites papers, panels & roundtables. Theme: Fragmenting orders, shared futures: Global politics in turbulent times Location: Manchester UK Date: 30 Jun–2 Jul 2027 (new dates) Deadline: 6 Nov 2026, 11.59pm UK conference.bisa.ac.uk

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Fragmenting orders, shared futures: Global politics in turbulent times

The BISA conference is renowned for being inclusive, diverse and friendly. We bring together a worldwide community of specialists to discuss, promote and develop international studies.

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Franco Escobar @fcastroescobar.bsky.social · 5h

Hello world! Super excited to join the Global Nuclear Order working group this year! :)

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Global Nuclear Order BISA Working Group @gnobisa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We are delighted to welcome @fcastroescobar.bsky.social (Keele University) as our new PGR Officer 🎉. Franco researches youth activism in the nuclear disarmament movement. We are excited to have him on board and look forward to working together!

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What Truman did do, the next day (August 10), as I have written about, is issue the order to STOP dropping atomic bombs on Japan. That is the most "proactive" thing he did regarding the atomic bomb in WWII. thebulletin.org/2025/08/trum...

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Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the atomic bomb in war. But he also deserves some credit for the fact that atomi...

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Franco Escobar @fcastroescobar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I will present my paper on youth antinuclear political socialisation in Canada this coming 15 April 2026 at the "Global Nuclear Order virtual conference: New thinking and new directions for global nuclear politics". For more details and to register: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

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New thinking and new directions for global nuclear politics- Global Nuclear Order (GNO) | BISA

- Global Nuclear Order (GNO) Working Group

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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

French MOD says they've kept the HEU and plutonium from the warheads dismantles after the Cold War and will use it for the increase of the nuclear arsenal recently announced by Macron. www.ledauphine.com/defense-guer...

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Franco Escobar @fcastroescobar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

In one~ week, we fly to #Nagasaki to present a paper about #Kataribe, an oral tradition of storytelling often translated as #DisasterStorytellers.

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Franco Escobar @fcastroescobar.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

My 10-min talk at the #HiroshimaPeacePlatform's Symposium is now live: youtu.be/epqkW7N_6Ic?... The full video features fascinating remarks from the in-person panel: Izumi Nakamitsu, Dr Elizabeth Chappell, Vasileva Vladisaya Bilyanova, and Shiro Sato. (My participation was remote only)

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ヒロシマ平和研究教育機構　国際シンポジウム「被爆８０年を超えて」【パネルディスカッション】

YouTube video by 広島市公式YouTubeチャンネル【The city of Hiroshima】

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Matthew Bunn @matthew-bunn.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' "Doomsday Clock" is now at 85 seconds to midnight -- closer than ever. In recent years, includes not only risk of nuclear war, but other existential risks -- climate, AI apocalypse, etc. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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Atomic scientists set 'Doomsday Clock' closer to midnight than ever

Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, fraying nuclear arms control, co...

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Franco Escobar @fcastroescobar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

‼️ My first publication in a peer-reviewed journal is here: doi.org/10.24357/igj... 📖

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François Diaz-Maurin @francoisdm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

VIDEO: @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social explains why it is so incredibly difficult to convey the size and destructive force of nuclear weapons—and always has been. Video by @erik-english.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=czyk... #nuclearweapons #AHouseOfDynamite #Trump #nukesky

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What you should know about nuclear weapons

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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

1/n - Trump says something about nuclear weapons tests...It’s hard to know what he means. As usual, he’s unclear, all over the map, and wrong. 1. The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. Wrong. Russia has more nuclear weapons than the United States.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Three years ago today, @neildegrassetyson.com asserted on “Real Time with Bill Maher” that unlike atomic bombs, “… modern nukes [thermonuclear bombs] don’t have the radiation problem … not in the way we used to have to worry about with fallout and all the rest of that.” This is completely wrong.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: modern hydrogen nuclear weapons don’t have the radiation fallout problem of WW2

YouTube video by Interstellar1977

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DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Recycling nuclear fuel is also expensive. Very, very expensive. "The cost to build the reprocessing plant, including new safety measures, has ballooned to ¥3.1T ($20.57B). The initial estimate was ¥760B. 💸 "The total budget has reached ¥14.7T." 💸💸

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Another delay feared at nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Aomori | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Long-flustered nuclear fuel cycle officials fear there could be another delay in the project.

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Franco Escobar @fcastroescobar.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

What role have young people played in the nuclear age? I wrote this article for #TheLoop Series on #NuclearPolitics at the ECPR: theloop.ecpr.eu/young-people... The study of young people in the nuclear ages is ‘unfolding, uncharted, and increasingly consequential’. Thanks for reading! 📚

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Franco Escobar @fcastroescobar.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Soon there will be no one left that witnessed World War II, and we will be "stuck like me trying to make sense of a photo album," as my colleague Sarah Taylor put it in her latest blog on A-bomb survivor trees: medium.com/@s.l.taylor_... #KeeleUniversity #GreenLegacyHiroshima #Hibakujumoku

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Green Legacy Hiroshima: reflecting on my grandfather’s time in WW2

This is the fourth blog post about Keele’s involvement with the Green Legacy Hiroshima initiative. The post is released today, on 15 August…

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 06/08/2025

80 years ago, on August 6, 1945, a single shutter clicked in Hiroshima and recorded what no camera had captured before, and none has again: the immediate aftermath of a city annihilated by nuclear weapons. "Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima's nuclear toll."

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Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima’s nuclear toll

Yoshito Matsushige’s photographs Hiroshima’s destruction are among the most harrowing visual records of the nuclear age.

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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I’ve been collaborating on a project for a #documentary film about #nuclear testing & global hibakusha. The full film will be out in fall, but there is a shorter, German version screened this week on @ZDF. You can watch it here w/subtitles #Hiroshima #ColdWar #NukeSky vimeo.com/1101618091/9...

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Im Schatten der Bombe - Silent War (click CC for subtitles)

please click on CC for subtitles (these are automatic subtitles, usually they're not very good) IN THE SHADOW OF THE BOMB - 80 YEARS OF HIROSHIMA A film by…

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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

“Reconstructing the Perpetrator's Soul by Reconstructing the Victim's Body: The Portrayal of the 'Hiroshima Maidens' by the Mainstream Media in the United States” #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHist intersections.anu.edu.au/issue24/jaco...

'Hiroshima A-Bomb Survivors Face Brighter Future,' proclaimed the text accompanying this photograph of Mitsuko Kuranoto and Emiko Takemoto as they arrive at Mitchel Air Force Base on Long Island, NY. Source: AP Wire 9 May 1955.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Right now in 1956 at Bikini Atoll in the North Pacific (5:46 AM July 21, local time), the United States conducted Shot TEWA of Operation Redwing. Detonated on a barge between Namu and Yurochi Islands, the 5-Megaton explosion blasted a crater in the seafloor 4,000 feet in diameter and 129 feet deep.

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NEW Redwing Tewa 4K UHD Restoration

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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

80 y/a the first #nuclear detonation on Earth happened—the #Trinity shot in New Mexico. Like all atmospheric nuclear detonations since then it spread radioactive fallout over a wide area downwind, creating a long-term health hazard for humans and other living beings.

Graphic of 11 different maps of the US each showing increasing spread of a cloud of fallout

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

In 2023, a stunning scientific analysis of historical data combined with atmospheric transport modeling found that within 10 days of the Trinity test, radioactive fallout had spread to 46 states, Mexico, and Canada, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of people (see animated map in link).

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Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study Finds (Published 2023)

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 10/07/2025

The April 1986 disaster at Chernobyl’s nuclear powerstation is remembered as one of the darkest moments of Ukrainian history, but it is also inspiring expressions of art, folklore, poetry and humor.

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Ukraine’s Chernobyl disaster gives birth to new expressions of folklore

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Franco Escobar @fcastroescobar.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A study of 51 leaders from nuclear-armed states found that 45% had physical or mental health issues such as severe depression, cognitive decline, substance use disorders, among other issues severe enough to impair decision-making around nuclear weapons. bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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The frequently impaired health of leaders of nuclear weapon states: an analysis of 51 deceased leaders - BMC Research Notes

This descriptive study examined biographical data on the health conditions of 51 deceased leaders of the nine nuclear weapon states. It found that eight (17%) died from chronic disease while in office...

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Franco Escobar @fcastroescobar.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Look! These seeds came from trees that survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and they will grow here at #KeeleUniversity . Read the blog: medium.com/@s.l.taylor_... This is my first time holding Ginkgo and Platanus Orientalis seeds with my own hands. 1/2

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A new legacy for Hiroshima’s trees

This is the first of a series of blogs documenting Keele University’s journey as the 19th UK partner on the Green Legacy Hiroshima (GLH)…

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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The Japanese translation of my book *Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha* has been released by The University Press of Nagoya. #NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHist #nuclear #Hiroshima #GlobalHibakusha Check it out and find a link to the publisher's page on my book website: nuclearbodies.com

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Home | Nuclear Bodies

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Franco Escobar @fcastroescobar.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"It is 89 seconds to midnight." The Bulletin moved the Doomsday Clock one second closer to catastrophe. They ask: "Is humanity safer or at greater risk this year compared to last year? And compared to the past 75 years?" This year, we are heading in the wrong direction.... still.

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2025 Doomsday Clock Statement - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

It is 89 seconds to midnight.

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I am fairly pleased with this table that I cobbled together for a guest lecture next week on the different narratives about the use of the atomic bomb in World War II, and creating an example of ways in which they can be compared to each other in an overarching way.

A table titled "Atomic Bomb Narratives," which compares the properties of three different narratives about the use of the atomic bomb during World War II. Each narrative is a column, with each row corresponding to one of 7 different narrative properties: "nature of the
use decision", "motivation(s) for use of bomb", "outcome
necessary for surrender?", "originators", "genre", and "message".

The first narrative is labeled "orthodox/the decision to use the bomb." Nature: "moral deliberation." Motivation: "avoid invasion." Output: "ended war, saved lives." Necessary: "yes." Originators: "government officials who made/dropped bomb." Genre: "heroic." Message: "the ends justify the means."

The second narrative is labeled "revisionist/atomic diplomacy." Nature: "diplomatic intrigue." Motivation: "flex on Soviets." Output: "began Cold War." Necessary: "no." Originators: "critics, Marxists." Genre: "tragic." Message: "don't trust the US government."

The third narrative is labeled "consensus/bureaucratic inertia." Nature: "accumulation of assumptions." Motivation: "multiple, overdetermined." Output: "contributed to end of war (with Soviet invasion)." Necessary: "maybe, maybe not." Originators: "academic historians." Genre: "comedic (chaotic)." Message: "history is really messy."

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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Re Trump & Greenland: There are two ways this serves Putin. First, it legitimizes "big powers" expanding their territories. Second, it places a big wedge between the US and EU. From this point of view, just making the demand accomplishes both of these goals.

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Franco Escobar @fcastroescobar.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Here's something special: The #HiroshimaPeaceInstitute recently published my reflective essay "Antinuclear Successors: Against the Nuclear Tides", which can read here: www.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/web_essay/we... Very grateful to everyone who supported me and my research during my time in Japan.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 30/12/2024

The Imperial Household Agency is considering visits by Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako to Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa prefectures next year to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Emperor and empress eye regional visits to mark 80th war anniversary

The emperor and empress may travel to Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa prefectures to meet with people involved in preserving the memory of the war.

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