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Historian, humorist, beer enthusiast! H-Diplo Review Editor. Board Member, Peace History Society. Cold War/Arms Control/abolition/peace activism. Author of Freeze! The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2022)

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Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons Beijing, Moscow and shaken American allies are seeking new warheads as President Trump ends more than a half century of nuclear arms control with Russia.

The last nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia expired on Thursday, leaving both superpowers with no limits on the size or structure of their arsenals. It expires at the same moment that Beijing, Moscow and shaken American allies are seeking new warheads.

05.02.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 4

HE IS THE FUTURE OF THE WARRIORS! WARRIOR 4 LIFE!

05.02.2026 04:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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βŒ›οΈThe Doomsday clock is 85 seconds to midnight. Nuclear risks are rising due to arms control faltering, nuclear arms expansion, and dangerous rhetoric.

But as @melissaparke01.bsky.social puts it, the Clock is a warning, and humanity can still change course.

Read moreπŸ”—
icanw.org/doomsday_clo...

27.01.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Revealing Tidbits Buried in Defense Contractors' Local Records Here’s some gems about Northrop Grumman's fire equipment, RTX's ethics and Anduril's wildlife challenges I discovered in public records last year.

#nukesky

Northrop Grumman's Utah plant for the new ICBM, which has a long history of explosions, fires and deaths, has, according to an officer who responded to last year's explosion, "the oldest fire equipment I’ve ever seen in my life.”

inkstick.substack.com/p/the-reveal... @inkstickmedia.com

15.01.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sometimes it’s worth putting @ktla.com on in the morning πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

31.12.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Remembering Cora Weiss, Longtime Peace & Anti-Nuclear Activist The longtime peace activist Cora Weiss died December 8 at the age of 91, after decades of advocacy demanding civil rights, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and the abolition of war.

The longtime peace activist Cora Weiss died December 8 at the age of 91, after decades of advocacy demanding civil rights, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and the abolition of war.

22.12.2025 03:01 πŸ‘ 208 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

ALSO: MOVING THE CHARGERS OUT OF LA WOULD BE WORSE THAN RELOCATION OF THE SETTLE SUPER SONICS. WE BLEED BABY BLUE AND GOLD IN THIS CITY BECAUSE WE ARE #BOLTSNATION

09.12.2025 05:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

WE HAVE ABANDONED THE RAIDERSβ€”LET LAS VEGAS HAVE THEMβ€”FOR WE HAVE #BOLTSNATION! OUR BELOVED LA CHARGERS! YOU MAY MOVE THE CHARGERS FROM LA
PHYSICALLY BUT THEY WILL FOREVER BE OURS SPIRITUALLY

09.12.2025 05:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

THEY ARE A BELOVED LA TEAM NOW! ANGELINOS SEE THEM ON THE SAME LEVEL AS THE DODGERS AND LAKERS. WE WEAR OLD SCHOOL JUNIOR SEAU JERSEYS WHILE WE SIT IN TRAFFIC ON OUR WAY TO CHARGERS GAMES. WE ARE IN FACT #BOLTSNATION #CHARGERSARELA #BOLTSNATIONREPRESENT!

09.12.2025 05:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@jlrmarin.bsky.social random bluesky bots like my troll postβ€”IT’S PROOF OF HOW MUCH LA LOVES ITS CHARGERS! #boltcountry

09.12.2025 05:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

San Diego may have the Eagles, but they can never have our LA CHARGERS! ⚑️⚑️ If it weren’t for all of LA having NBA cup fever, everyone would have CHARGERS FEVER! LA LOVES ITS CHARGERS! ⚑️⚑️⚑️⚑️

09.12.2025 05:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.

"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "

www.wired.com/story/poems-...

30.11.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 321 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 214

THEY GOT MAX CHRISTIE WHO SOMETIMES ALSO GOES BY THE ALLIAS MARC CHRISTIE. PRETTY FAIR TRADE IMHO πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

30.11.2025 05:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

THEY SHOULD TRADE FOR AD! WHAT IF HE STAYS HEALTHY FOR LIKE A WEEK! AD AND STEPH TOGETHER 🀯

22.11.2025 05:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Analysis | State Department erases 15 pages of nuclear history β€” with no warning Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.

wapo.st/4hUdZUA

14.11.2025 17:17 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Censored History of Able Archer 83 Washington, D.C., November 14, 2025 - The State Department quietly deleted important archival records from an official history detailing how a 1983 NATO war game could have led to a catastrophic nucle...

The Censored History of Able Archer 83:
Archive Publishes β€œWar Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

14.11.2025 17:22 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

Reviewed this in the JMH a while back, phenomenal read.

14.11.2025 16:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists

https://www.404media.co/a-small-town-is-fighting-a-1-2-billion-ai-datacenter-for-americas-nuclear-weapon-scientists/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

11.11.2025 01:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with a feather boa around his neck says wooooooo ALT: a man with a feather boa around his neck says wooooooo
02.11.2025 05:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man and a woman are sitting in a car with the caption i love la we love it ALT: a man and a woman are sitting in a car with the caption i love la we love it
02.11.2025 05:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Now maybe I’ll finally get a chance to watch House of Dynamite πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

02.11.2025 05:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

THATS WHAT THEY GET FOR WALKING SHOHEI!

28.10.2025 07:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

MAGIC JOHNSON WAS THE GREATEST 6’9” POINT GUARD AND DUDE WAS AN NBA STARTER! FOR A PLAYOFF TEAM IN FACT! MULTIPLE YEARS EVEN! MANY PEOPLE RATE HIM AS ABOVE AVERAGE! I HAVE MANY HOT TAKES TONIGHT πŸ”₯

23.09.2025 06:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

LEBRON JAMES IS THE GREATEST PLAYER TO PLAY 23 SEASONS IN THE NBA! DUDE WAS A STARTER AND ALL STAR (FOR MULTIPLE YEARS EVEN), PLUS HE WAS AN MVP, PLUS HE WON SOME RINGS, OH AND HE BROKE KAREEMS SCORING RECORD WHICH WAS CRAY CRAY

23.09.2025 06:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I SEE YOUR MUGSY BOUGES ARGUMENT AND RAISE YOU MANUTE BOL AS THE GREATEST 7’ 7” PLAYER OF ALL TIME!

23.09.2025 06:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Interview: My Dad Moved the Mormon Church on Nukes - Ploughshares A charismatic Mormon attorney lobbied Latter-day Saints leadership to oppose nuclear weapons. His son shares behind-the-scenes details on the campaign.

A charismatic Mormon attorney lobbied LDS leadership to oppose nuclear weapons during the Cold War. In this interview by @inkstickmedia.com's @tkbarnes.bsky.social, his son reflects on that legacy.
https://loom.ly/wnPulYs

03.09.2025 11:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Laura Kalman, Right Star Rising
Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive
Perlstein, Reaganland
Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade
Meg Jacobs, Panic at the Pump
Salim Yaqub, Imperfect Strangers

(Just a few 70’s histories that spring to mind.)

22.08.2025 01:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please  share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

18.08.2025 18:42 πŸ‘ 1031 πŸ” 760 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 145

VALKS MALKS, LAKERS IN 5!

18.08.2025 03:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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As arms race in Asia intensifies, a-bomb survivors make final plea for peace While atomic bomb survivors warn the catastrophic risks, leaders of nuclear-armed states and self-proclaimed 'realists' argue that the deterrence of nuclear weapons is what keeps them from being deployed.

While atomic bomb survivors warn the catastrophic risks, leaders of nuclear-armed states and self-proclaimed 'realists' argue that the deterrence of nuclear weapons is what keeps them from being deployed.

16.08.2025 21:37 πŸ‘ 302 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7