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Nuclear Weapons of the Atomic AgeIn the spring of 2025, thirty years after he created his Protest Stamps, Mark Warda started going through his files. Seeing how many duplicates he had, he offered a mixture of his (and others%u2019) Protest Stamps for sale on eBay. I saw the listing, and even though I had most of the stamps, there were a couple I needed for my collection, so I purchased the lot.When Mark%u2019s stamps arrived in the mail several days later, they were accompanied by a piece of paper relating the %u201cStory of the Hiroshima Bombing Stamp,%u201d (see next page). At the bottom was the name of Mark Warda. After reading it, I quickly fired off an email to Mark, offering him, %u201ca decadesbelated thank you for producing the stamps,%u201d and asking if he had some specific items to help me round out my collection.Mark wrote back right away, saying he was putting together a price list, and would send it as soon as it was available. He also attached a 42-page document he%u2019d put together a number of years earlier about his experiences in producing the Poster Stamps, which included numerous newspaper articles and images of his stamp variations.A few days later, Mark emailed me his price list, which contained far more items, and varieties of items, than I expected (see second and third pages following). I quickly ordered five of his Protest-Stamp sheets. After they arrived, and I had placed them in my album, I realized the album was now too fat to fit inside its slip case. Which necessitated splitting its contents into two albums, meaning that this collection would now span a total of four albums.Having four albums devoted to philately and nuclear weapons, two of which were only about half full, meant that I now had room for additional material. So I placed another order with Mark, which consisted mostly of the imperforate and uncut sheets. (They follow his 2025 order form.) I also obtained a scarce sheet printed in error with one color inverted, as well as a proof of the Miniature Sheet having the 4 original-design stamps with text which was printed on plain, non-glossy paper. Now, my collection had far more examples of his output than I ever expected. Because he released so many stamps, in so many variations, A November 2006 article in U.S. Stamp News said, %u201cWarda seems to want to compete with the Sand Dune countries, and continues to produce labels.%u201d This statement was in reference to the fact that some Arabian countries issued numerous needless stamp designs just to sell to collectors, and that seemed to be what Warda was doing. While that may have been the case, in actuality, none of his later designs sold nearly as wall as his first Protest Stamps.Warda Protest Stamp, 2025 Update