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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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🇵🇸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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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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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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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

This is a graphic and heartbreaking section. There is no justification for ever using these weapons again. A lot of people get paid a lot of money to tell you it's actually complicated and that there are scenarios where we could and should use them - but I promise, it's not complicated.

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Mr. Tanimoto found about twenty men and women on the sandpit. He drove the boat onto the bank and urged them to get aboard. They did not move and he realized that they were too weak to lift themselves. He reached down and took a woman by the hands, but her skin slipped off in huge, glovelike pieces. He was so sickened by this that he had to sit down for a moment. Then he got out into the water and, though a small man, lifted several of the men and women, who were naked, into his boat. Their backs and breasts were clammy, and he remembered uneasily what the great burns he had seen during the day had been like: yellow at first, then red and swollen, with the skin sloughed off, and finally, in the evening, suppurated and smelly. With the tide risen, his bamboo pole was now too short and he had to paddle most of the way across with it. On the other side, at a higher spit, he lifted the slimy living bodies out and carried them up the slope away from the tide. He had to keep consciously repeating to himself, "These are human beings." It took him three trips to get them all across the river.

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Joshua Baker @joshuabaker.phd · 06/08/2025

I'm going to thread a few passages that jumped out at me (warning: some are heartbreakingly sad, some are grizzly and very graphic) but truly I encourage anyone who is seeing this to just read the book, as the impact of all of it at once is infuriating and oppressive in a terribly radicalizing way.

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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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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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Joshua Baker @joshuabaker.phd · 25/06/2025

His answer is also again underlining the question of “if they could’ve easily assembled a nuclear weapon, and they chose not to, why did they get bombed?”

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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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Joshua Baker @joshuabaker.phd · 20/06/2025

missile defense is such a perfect money pit, in part, because both isolationists and expansionists can squint at it and find their preferred method of not funding a social safety net

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