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Joshua Baker

@joshuabaker.phd
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Investigative researcher w/PhD in political science, & advanced degrees in history & IR. Focus on pressure networks and perception manipulation, specifically re: nuclear weapons & climate. Push back against those who get rich by making the world worse.

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Joshua Baker @joshuabaker.phd · 14/08/2026
I was fortunate enough to spend last week in DC as part of this year’s Nuclear Futures Fellowship cohort. It was invigorating to work with a group from around the globe who care deeply about building a better tomorrow. Truly an honor to be involved. A deep thanks to both Ploughshares & Horizon 2045.
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Joshua Baker @joshuabaker.phd · 15/07/2026
Since the TPNW entered into force, no country with nuclear weapons has won a world cup.
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Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility @oregonpsr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
⚽Come join OPSR tonight at Beulahland Coffee & Alehouse (118 NE 28th Ave. Portland, OR 97232) to watch the USA v Paraguay match - TONIGHT (6/12)! Game starts at 6! Come talk soccer, nukes, and maybe go home with an OPSR soccer ball!
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Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“I ain’t no highfalutin neocon; I’m just a simple country warmonger”
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François Diaz-Maurin @francoisdm.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
15 years ago today, the world watched Fukushima-Daiichi being shattered. As an editor, I'm seeing the narrative shift from "safety at all costs" to "tripling capacity" (as seen at yesterday's Paris Nuclear Energy Summit). But is the nuclear disaster over? (1/n) #Fukushima15 #NukeSky #NuclearEnergy
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and surrounding areas of the exclusion zone, seen February 10. The town of Futaba is visible to the right of the plant, and Okuma to the left. Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP
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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Democratic members of Congress need to attack this war as a crime, because that’s what it is. “The president did not plan out his war of aggression as well as he could have” is a foolish and self-defeating position to take.
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Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility @oregonpsr.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
How do governments justify the unjustifiable? Join OPSR for The Decision to Drop the Bomb. Vincent Intondi examines the story behind the decision made 80 years ago and the narratives used to explain & defend that choice. 🗓️ Wed., Feb. 4 🕕 6:00 PM PT 💻 Zoom (oregonpsr.org/decision) (link in bio)
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
!!!!!
After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC, noting that he had made sure the confession included “all my recommendations to the African National Congress” about the best way to sabotage Koeberg and other facilities.

“And, gloriously, the judge read it out in court,” Dr. Christie added. “So my recommendations went from the judge’s mouth” straight to the A.N.C.
Two years later, in December 1982, Koeberg was bombed by white A.N.C. operatives who had gotten jobs at the facility. They followed Dr. Christie’s instructions to the letter.
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
In less than 7 months Trump et al Regime has twice pulled a surprise attack on critical assets of people/states it was ostensibly negotiating with at the time (Iran & Venezuela). I want us to be clear about that.
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
As I’ve been saying, this has major ramifications for nuclear launch procedures. It’s foolish to think legality offers any kind of constraint on what is clearly a de facto unilateral power for the president to launch a first strike.
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
People like me have sometimes gotten pushback for not considering the supposed legal checks on presidential “sole authority.” Lawyers would not allow an illegal strike, we were told - and in any case the military would refuse such an order. Would like to know what those folks think now!
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lynda williams @lyndalovon.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
In Massachusetts, residential proximity to a nuclear power plant (NPP) was associated with significantly increased cancer incidence, with risk declining by distance, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. #NoNukes #NukeSky hsph.harvard.edu/news/cancer-...
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Cancer risk may increase with proximity to nuclear power plants | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
In Massachusetts, residential proximity to a nuclear power plant was associated with significantly increased cancer incidence, with risk declining by distance, according to a new Harvard Chan School s...
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Joshua Baker @joshuabaker.phd · 03/12/2025
image of someone moving upside down cups around a table, playing a shell game, with the quote "if you think about it, Sentinel is Golden Dome right now.”
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Good @emmaclairefoley.bsky.social piece pushing back against a recent Foreign Affairs article: "Below the confidence in America’s power to shape the global status quo seems to lurk a quiet admission that the American empire is fracturing" jacobin.com/2025/11/nucl...
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The Return of Nuclear Proliferation
A recent article in the establishment security journal Foreign Affairs makes the case for nuclear proliferation among America’s allies. Not only are its arguments unsound, but they also understate the...
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
No one could have predicted, etc. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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François Diaz-Maurin @francoisdm.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚨 JUST IN: A newly declassified cable reinforces proliferation concerns about high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel, and reveals an urgent need for an international review of #HALEU use, writes Ed Lyman (@nucsafetyucs.bsky.social). #uranium #enrichment #proliferation #IAEA #safeguards #nukesky
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Declassified cable reinforces proliferation concerns about high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel
The declassified document reveals an urgent need for an international review of the proliferation risks of HALEU.
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Stephen Young @atomicwonk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
My @ucs.org colleague @lauraegrego.bsky.social explains how #AHouseofDynamite has the better take on the flawed US anti-missile system than the Pentagon's inaccurate claims that it works. Bottom line: the system has not been shown to work under realistic conditions.
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A House of Dynamite Gets It Right—But Here’s the Full Picture
The Pentagon is wrong to attack the movie for being inaccurate. We cannot rely on missile defense systems to protect us from nuclear destruction.
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
As a reminder, here's what happened after we exploded 100 nuclear devices in the atmosphere at the Nevada Test Site from 1951-62:
A black and white map prepared by Richard Miller showing (in dark black streaks) areas across the continental United States where two or more radioactive fallout clouds passed over between 1951 and 1962. Every state was affected, with eastern Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, and others being especially hard hit.
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Nuclear testing you say? "Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism in #Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold War” #NuclearTesting #ColdWar #NukeSky ipus.snu.ac.kr/eng/wp-conte...
American military film crew filming “surrender” of Bikini Atoll
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 30/10/2025
We're getting nights like this basically monthly now, and the major funders of nuclear policy work are still retreating
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Joshua Baker @joshuabaker.phd · 30/10/2025
If a complete update and renovation of existing weapons was accomplished during his first term, as he said, then we can cancel all future modernization plans, yeah?
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isaac @sevier.io · 06/10/2025
Let's go!
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Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility @oregonpsr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🌍 Today is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. OPSR is proud to endorse this joint appeal, making an urgent global call to abolish nukes, cut dangerous budgets, and invest in a safer, healthier future for all. 👉 tinyurl.com/NuclearAbolitionDay
Oregon PSR Endorses Nuclear Abolition Day Joint Appeal
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Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
My book comes out in three weeks. www.bloomsbury.com/us/contempor...
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Contemporary Science Fiction and The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
This book seeks to create a new means of interrogating the direction in which contemporary science fiction is progressing.In the late 1950s, Hugh Everett III su…
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Stephen Young @atomicwonk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Excellent @sciam.bsky.social Golden Dome article details the lack of information about the proposed system, the enormous amount of taxpayer $$$s it will consume (even as it fails), & the negative ramifications for US security overall: www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...
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What’s the Plan for ‘Golden Dome’? Even Experts Aren’t Sure
A sweeping U.S. missile defense program comes with many risks, costs and uncertainties, analysts say
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Mackenzie Knight-Boyle @mknight.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The president has sole authority to order nuclear use- How did we get here? How does it work? What’s the issue? Can we solve it? My new @scientistsorg.bsky.social report on nuclear launch authority in the U.S. - “All the King’s Weapons” - is out! Read it below 👇 fas.org/publication/...
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
“A law firm representing opponents of offshore wind farms is demanding that Brown University retract research that details links between the fossil fuel industry and anti-wind groups.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Joshua Baker @joshuabaker.phd · 06/08/2025
Inspired by this article, I finally sat down with John Hersey's Hiroshima this Saturday while at the river. In the book Hersey interviews a handful of survivors a year after Hiroshima, with follow ups 40 years later. The stories in that book will likely stay with me the rest of my life.
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Was interviewed on Al Jazeera earlier today on the 80th commemoration of #Hiroshima and #nuclear weapons. vimeo.com/1107535248?s...
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Bo Jacobs on Hiroshima 80th commemoration on Al Jazeera (Aug 5, 2025)
This is "Bo Jacobs on Hiroshima 80th commemoration on Al Jazeera (Aug 5, 2025)" by Bo Jacobs on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
When your missile defense scheme is feasible and cost-effective www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Pentagon keeps a lid on Golden Dome
The department has banned officials from publicly discussing Trump’s favorite weapons project at a major missile defense conference.
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Nuclear Abolition Now @nuclearabolition.now · 01/08/2025
Visit the Hiroshima Peace Museum exhibit at the Corvallis Museum, now til Aug. 10 (closed Mon and Tues; always free for OSU students w/ID card). There's a commemoration at 6:30pm Aug. 6 at Howland Plaza @ First St. & Madison Ave & an all ages "Family Peace Day", 1-3 pm Aug. 9 at the Corvallis Museum
Three public events in Corvallis commemorate the 80th year since the atomic bombings of Japan. A Hiroshima Nagasaki Exhibit from the Hiroshima Peace Museum will be on display with art by local artist The Mandala Lady, at the Corvallis Museum July 26- August 10, 2025 (museum is closed M and Tu).   

Wed. August 6, 2025 the annual Corvallis Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration starts at 6:30 pm, Howland Plaza, 1st and Madison. From 6:30 to 7 join us for traditional Koto music by Masumi Timson, displays, and origami. Program begins at 7 pm featuring the Corvallis Mayor; Rev. Dr. Kelly Wadsworth of the National Board of Veterans for Peace and Pastor of Salem Westminster Presbyterian Church; and music by Halie Loren, internationally known singer and songwriter. The program closes with a community affirmation for peace and a flotilla on the river. 

Bring all ages on Saturday, August 9 from 1 to 3 pm for a Family Peace Day at the Corvallis Museum! Music by the Corvallis Peace and Justice Singalong with story telling of "Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes," origami peace crane folding, and movement by Universal Dances of Peace with a responsive art project in the museum. 

All events are free and open to the public. An ongoing fundraiser for this year's exhibit and future Commemorations is ongoing at the Corvallis Museum. Sponsors also include   Our Revolution Corvallis Allies, Corvallis Interfaith Network, KORC FM 105.9,  Veterans for Peace Linus Pauling Chapter , Corvallis Interfaith Network , Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center , and OSU School of History, Philosophy and Religion.  

For accommodations or for more information, linda.richards@oregonstate.edu.
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The Slides @theslides.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"ORGANIZATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY," slide 11 of 41 [gallery]
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Laura Grego @lauraegrego.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The Declaration's final recommendation calls on scientists, academics, civil society, and communities of faith to help create the pressure needed to compel action from global leaders. Without action, it warns, “there can be no doubt that our luck will finally run out.”
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Joshua Baker @joshuabaker.phd · 03/07/2025
Very excited to check this out
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"And the advancement of that movement—for socialism, for freedom, for social peace, for the unity of the multiethnic working class—is how we end the 9/11 Era." www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...
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This Is The Beginning of The End of The 9/11 Era
Capital and nativism will fight even harder against Zohran Mamdani now. But in capital's seat of power, socialism defeated barbarism. I fucking love New York
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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I guess blowing up Fordow and declaring Iran denuclearized is the new closing Yongbyon and declaring North Korea denuclearized?
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Dr. Vincent Intondi @vincentintondi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Aren’t you all glad we have this thing called deterrence? Everyone seems deterred from attacking each other and I feel so much safer with nuclear weapons in the world.
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Dr. Vincent Intondi @vincentintondi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We had a deal in place. It was working. Iran was not building nuclear weapons.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
If the act of war is illegal you really and truly do not need a preamble about how you're glad the president who did the illegal thing picked a target you're happy to see hit
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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
ICAN condemns the United States’ illegal military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities. By joining Israel’s strikes, the US is violating international law and putting global non-proliferation efforts at risk.
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Ploughshares @ploughshares.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites is reckless and draws the US directly into Israel’s war with Iran. This is a war that the American people do not want and the world does not support. We call for Congress to intervene and halt this war.
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Joshua Baker @joshuabaker.phd · 22/06/2025
Have to wonder why any country would ever engage in good faith diplomacy with the United States ever again.
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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
reminding everyone there’s no such thing as a tactical nuclear weapon
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/06/2025
Apparently this person was asked to provide medical documents that proved she needed to mask. This is why “health exceptions” to masks bans don’t work.
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Trump reneged on more than a billion dollars the Biden administration promised to tribes for renewable energy and salmon recovery."
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Trump upends historic Columbia River Basin agreement, bringing uncertainty to salmon recovery efforts
President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the federal government out of what Northwest tribes have hailed as a historic agreement to recover salmon in the Columbia River Basin.
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority. A man you can bait with a Tweet…
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Nationalize 'em
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
lol @carolinehaskins.bsky.social
‪Katie Drummond‬
 ‪@katie-drummond.bsky.social‬
· 3mo


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Exciting 
@wired.com
 team news! 

I'm thrilled that 
@carolinehaskins.bsky.social
 is joining WIRED, starting Monday, as our newest business reporter. Caroline is a force of nature, exactly the kind of journalist you want on a team at this moment in time, and I know she'll kill it at WIRED. WOOH!"three months later" spongebob meme‪@wired.com‬
Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent defense conference following reports of the data analytics firm's work with the Trump administration.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
They're literally doing the meme
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