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Henry Maar

@hmaar.bsky.social

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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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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” πŸ‘ 1    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 β€” πŸ‘ 1039    πŸ” 768    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 149

VALKS MALKS, LAKERS IN 5!

18.08.2025 03:03 β€” 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 β€” πŸ‘ 304    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 7
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These Are Still Nuclear Times Historian Henry Richard Maar III for Nuclear Times: β€œThe entwined history of arms control and peace activism should remind usβ€”we can stop and turn the clock back.”

Grateful for this ringing endorsement (and blaring warning alarm) from Henry Maar for the new Nuclear Times.

15.08.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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These Are Still Nuclear Times Historian Henry Richard Maar III for Nuclear Times: β€œThe entwined history of arms control and peace activism should remind usβ€”we can stop and turn the clock back.”

Nuclear Timesβ€”the voice of the 1980’s peace and antinuclear movementβ€”is back. I wrote a short piece for it, talking about its history and relevancy both for contemporary peace activists and policymakers, as well as its usefulness for Cold War history scholars.

15.08.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Japan's aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are increasingly speaking out against nuclear weapons.

Eighty years is a lifetime and we’re losing the most compelling messengers about nuclear war.

Frank Von Hippel also reminded me that because it’s been a lifetime since nuclear weapons were used that people think it can’t happen again. But disarming is as urgent as ever. apnews.com/article/japa...

05.08.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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At exactly 8:15 a.m. JST, around the time you’re reading this, 80 years ago, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

Today, we remember the lives lost, the survivors who continue to speak out, and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament. Read more here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...

06.08.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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80 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Art Needs β€˜Courage to Be Afraid’ Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture to rediscover β€œthe courage to be afraid.”

80 years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the world has blundered into a new age of nuclear perils, Jason Farago writes. β€œTo survive this second nuclear age we are going to need models from the first one: artists who faced up to what the bomb did, and what the bomb made of us.”

03.08.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 550    πŸ” 161    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 11
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Sen. Markey, Rep. Khanna Introduce Legislation to Pause Sentinel Nuclear Missile Program | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts Bill Text (PDF) Washington (July 23, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Representative...

β€œThe Sentinel ICBM is completely unnecessary, wildly expensive, and so far behind schedule the Pentagon has only a vague idea of when it will be deployed. Given that ICBMs are vulnerable to attack, and therefore kept on hair trigger alert, they create pointless risk."β€” UCS's @atomicwonk.bsky.social

24.07.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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A creek with atomic waste from WWII is linked to increased cancer risk A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.

A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.

22.07.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 538    πŸ” 190    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 13
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Williams’ Empire was published nearly 50 years ago, but I find the wisdom worth returning to regularly: β€œempire as a way of life only leads to war and more war.” More pessimistically he warns, β€œempire a a way of life will lead to nuclear death.”

22.06.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Empire is a bipartisan affair, and the Dems are just as committed to the warfare state as the Republicans

#seealsoFreeze!

22.06.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t even get me started on the fucking Democrats, Christ!

22.06.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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@jlrmarin.bsky.social best case scenario MAGA implodes over thisβ€”this assuming the country still has a fucking future. This is such a god damn disaster.

More at 11!

22.06.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.

22.06.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3751    πŸ” 1010    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 44
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Peace president my ass

22.06.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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17.06.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

An Army vet heading to the VA took a wrong turnβ€”and was detained by Marines in LA. While they acted professionally, their detaining him was likely illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act. It’s another line being crossedβ€”and it puts our Marines in a bad spot. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

14.06.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1121    πŸ” 516    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 32

The JCPOA was very good, actually.

13.06.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 996    πŸ” 191    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 17
Cover of the 2022 book "FREEZE: The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and end the Cold War," by Henry Richard Maar III - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501760884/freeze/.

Cover of the 2022 book "FREEZE: The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and end the Cold War," by Henry Richard Maar III - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501760884/freeze/.

Cover of the 2023 book "Saving the World From Nuclear War: The June 12, 1983 Disarmament Rally and Beyond," by Vincent J. Intondi. - https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12923/saving-world-nuclear-war?srsltid=AfmBOooy4sQpH9sFDfWWxxFQQAsNeTmRlwZecD059CerQMtBvDZz9jLa.

Cover of the 2023 book "Saving the World From Nuclear War: The June 12, 1983 Disarmament Rally and Beyond," by Vincent J. Intondi. - https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12923/saving-world-nuclear-war?srsltid=AfmBOooy4sQpH9sFDfWWxxFQQAsNeTmRlwZecD059CerQMtBvDZz9jLa.

To learn more about the nuclear freeze movement and the unprecedented June 12th march and rally and its impact, check out these recent books by @hmaar.bsky.social and @vincentintondi.bsky.social.

12.06.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A colorful poster promoting the June 12 March for Peace & Justice in New York City. The main image features a large dove in profile above a road or walkway, facing to the right. Coming out of the bottom of the dove are five different human legs (male and female) wearing different kinds of clothing and shoes, representing the diverse attendees the organizers hoped to attract.

A colorful poster promoting the June 12 March for Peace & Justice in New York City. The main image features a large dove in profile above a road or walkway, facing to the right. Coming out of the bottom of the dove are five different human legs (male and female) wearing different kinds of clothing and shoes, representing the diverse attendees the organizers hoped to attract.

A black and white photograph of the some of the tightly-packed crowd at the rally on the Great Lawn in Central Park. Near the center, a woman stands up holding an American flag whose stars have been replaced with the peace symbol.

A black and white photograph of the some of the tightly-packed crowd at the rally on the Great Lawn in Central Park. Near the center, a woman stands up holding an American flag whose stars have been replaced with the peace symbol.

A color photograph of the some of the massive crowd at the rally on the Great Lawn in Central Park. People are facing forward, watching either a speech or a musical performance on the stage.

A color photograph of the some of the massive crowd at the rally on the Great Lawn in Central Park. People are facing forward, watching either a speech or a musical performance on the stage.

An aerial color photograph showing the Great Lawn in Central Park almost completely filled with people.

An aerial color photograph showing the Great Lawn in Central Park almost completely filled with people.

Today in 1982, an estimated 750,000-1,000,000 people marched through New York City from the United Nations to Central Park to demand a US-Soviet freeze on testing, production, and deployment of new, dangerous, and expensive nuclear weaponsβ€”at the time, the largest political protest in US history.

12.06.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hearing more reports from people I know of ICE chasing down farm workers in fields in Oxnard. This is all not very good, for countless reasons, but mostly for snatching hardworking citizens of this county for no reason but racists in the WH. #VenturaCounty #ICE #politics #agriculture

11.06.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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These historians oversee unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy. Trump fired them all. An advisory committee of historians helps ensure the record of America’s history remains unbiased, transparent and thorough. Trump just fired the entire panel.

Gift link
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#skystorians #academicsky

28.05.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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I attempted to get ChatGPT to help me ChatGPT proof part of an assignment. I’m not so convinced of its β€œsubtle” blending of text into a political cartoon πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

24.05.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@hmaar is following 19 prominent accounts