Joshua Baker
@joshuabaker.phd
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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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...
"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...
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...
jacobin.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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...
"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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No one could have predicted, etc. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
No one could have predicted, etc. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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🚨 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
#uranium #enrichment #proliferation #IAEA #safeguards #nukesky
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.
thebulletin.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🚨 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
#uranium #enrichment #proliferation #IAEA #safeguards #nukesky
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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.
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.
blog.ucs.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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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As a reminder, here's what happened after we exploded 100 nuclear devices in the atmosphere at the Nevada Test Site from 1951-62:
January 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
As a reminder, here's what happened after we exploded 100 nuclear devices in the atmosphere at the Nevada Test Site from 1951-62:
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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...
"Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism
in #Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold
War”
#NuclearTesting #ColdWar #NukeSky
ipus.snu.ac.kr/eng/wp-conte...
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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...
"Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism
in #Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold
War”
#NuclearTesting #ColdWar #NukeSky
ipus.snu.ac.kr/eng/wp-conte...
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We're getting nights like this basically monthly now, and the major funders of nuclear policy work are still retreating
October 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
We're getting nights like this basically monthly now, and the major funders of nuclear policy work are still retreating
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?
I’ll give someone $1000 if they can find one factually correct statement in this post
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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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Let's go!
Rumble on the River x Public Grids collaboration
Music, ideas, & community power FRIDAY! Hosted by @councilorgreen.bsky.social and @sevier.io & featuring many others fighting for public power & ppl-centered budgets.
📍 1211 SW Main St.
🗓️ Oct. 10 (Friday)
🕡 7pm Event starts
RSVP: Link in bio
Music, ideas, & community power FRIDAY! Hosted by @councilorgreen.bsky.social and @sevier.io & featuring many others fighting for public power & ppl-centered budgets.
📍 1211 SW Main St.
🗓️ Oct. 10 (Friday)
🕡 7pm Event starts
RSVP: Link in bio
October 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Let's go!
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🌍 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
👉 tinyurl.com/NuclearAbolitionDay
September 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🌍 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
👉 tinyurl.com/NuclearAbolitionDay
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September 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Excellent @sciam.bsky.social Golden Dome article details the lack of information about the proposed system, the enormous amount of taxpayer $$$s it will consume (even as it fails), & the negative ramifications for US security overall: www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...
What’s the Plan for ‘Golden Dome’? Even Experts Aren’t Sure
A sweeping U.S. missile defense program comes with many risks, costs and uncertainties, analysts say
www.scientificamerican.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Excellent @sciam.bsky.social Golden Dome article details the lack of information about the proposed system, the enormous amount of taxpayer $$$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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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/...
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/...
September 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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/...
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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“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...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“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...
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.
The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled
Wrote this a few years ago with Ran Zwigenberg.
#NukeSky #HistSTM #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #EnvHist
www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/t...
Wrote this a few years ago with Ran Zwigenberg.
#NukeSky #HistSTM #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #EnvHist
www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/t...
The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled
In August 1945, the United States attacked two cities in Japan with nuclear weapons in the last days of World War Two. The US used weapons of mass
www.counterpunch.org
August 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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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Was interviewed on Al Jazeera earlier today on the 80th commemoration of #Hiroshima and #nuclear weapons.
vimeo.com/1107535248?s...
vimeo.com/1107535248?s...
Bo Jacobs on Hiroshima 80th commemoration on Al Jazeera (Aug 5, 2025)
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August 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Was interviewed on Al Jazeera earlier today on the 80th commemoration of #Hiroshima and #nuclear weapons.
vimeo.com/1107535248?s...
vimeo.com/1107535248?s...
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When your missile defense scheme is feasible and cost-effective www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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.
www.politico.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
When your missile defense scheme is feasible and cost-effective www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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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
August 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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
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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.”
July 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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.”
Very excited to check this out
1/8
Later this year from @mitpress.bsky.social in @belfercenter.bsky.social's Studies in International Security book series-- Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail.
This is a sobering edited volume on how efforts to reduce nuclear weapons dangers may sometimes wind up exacerbating them.
Later this year from @mitpress.bsky.social in @belfercenter.bsky.social's Studies in International Security book series-- Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail.
This is a sobering edited volume on how efforts to reduce nuclear weapons dangers may sometimes wind up exacerbating them.
July 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Very excited to check this out
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"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-...
www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...
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
www.forever-wars.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
"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-...
www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...
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I guess blowing up Fordow and declaring Iran denuclearized is the new closing Yongbyon and declaring North Korea denuclearized?
June 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I guess blowing up Fordow and declaring Iran denuclearized is the new closing Yongbyon and declaring North Korea denuclearized?
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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.
June 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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.