Peter Scoblic “rocked Bloggingheads.TV”:http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/10368 yesterday to promote his new “book”:http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780670018826-2, _U.S. Vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America’s Security._

Based on the first 20 minutes, Peter’s performance is very, very good. J Heilbrunn’s is, however, unexpectedly weak. I honestly have no idea what he’s on about most of the time.

The “paper”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/file_download/3 I “posted”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/1584/nuclear-terrorism-not-gonna-happen by Chris McIntosh and Ian Storey is making the rounds. I realized that it doesn’t have a title page (don’t look at me), so I got one from he authors:

“Between Acquisition and Use: Examining the Improbability of Nuclear Terrorism.” The date is 1/29/08

As I “noted here,”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/1590/p-crail-and-yongbyon-photos there will be some more new bloggers on this site. I am looking to get a byline function on here so as to minimize confusion. But for now, note that the “below post”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/1580/nuclear-sub-proliferation-and-the-npt-loophole is by another member of the Monterey Mafia, Anya Loukianova. Very happy to have her on board.

A few more people, and I will have to do nothing except cash my elephant checks…

*Update:* Anya informs me that she is not a member of said Mafia because she didn’t get a degree from there.

I’ve decided to place a bunch of documents on the blog that I find myself using repeatedly. I think they’re all available elsewhere, but hopefully it will be helpful to have them all in one place. It’ll help me, anyway; perhaps others will also find them useful.

I plan to update them regularly until I run out. But you don’t have to wait for me to put up a blog post – just click the new link on the left side that says “documents.” Some other stuff is available there too. Thanks to Greg the “Hexive”:http://www.hexive.com/ god for making it happen.

I started with some of the relevant chapters from OTA’s 1993 report _Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction._ [Props to “FAS.”:http://www.fas.org ] To download the documents directly, click these links: “Nuclear Weapons,”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/file_download/4 “Chemical Weapons,”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/file_download/5 “Biological Weapons,”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/file_download/6 “Delivery Vehicles.”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/file_download/7

A companion paper can be found “here.”:http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ota/9341.pdf I had trouble uploading the whole thing, so click the link.

Q: Are you blogging again?

A: Yes.

Q: For how long?

A: Dunno.

Q: Are you looking for help?

A: Yes.

Q: Why the hiatus?

A: Case of lazy bastarditis.

Q: Why are you back?

A: I’d rather not have a blog that is Teh Suck.

*Note:* No one has actually asked any of these questions.

ACA’s productivity has obviously shot through the ceiling since I left.

For instance, you can now leave comments about _ACT_ articles. I left one at the bottom of “this piece”:http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2008_01-02/cfe.asp by Wade about Russia’s suspension of CFE implementation:

bq. Wade’s CFE article is the greatest ever written on the subject in the history of the universe.

I am obviously being a bit snarky, but the article is really good.

Go leave some of your own.

ACA is “soliciting votes”:http://survey.armscontrol.org/index.php?sid=5 for the 2007 “Arms Control Person of the Year.”

Here are the nominees:

*Jonas Gahr Støre, Foreign Minister of Norway* for spearheading his government’s initiative to negotiate a treaty banning cluster munitions after the failure of states to agree to such talks at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2006.

*Representatives Peter Visclosky (D-Ind.) and David Hobson (R-Ohio)* for leading the House of Representatives and Congress to zero out funding for the controversial Reliable Replacement Warhead program.

*Prakash Karat, General Secretary of India’s Communist Party and his left parties allies* for slowing progress on the implementation of the U.S.-Indian nuclear cooperation deal.

*Former Secretaries of State George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, and former Sen. Sam Nunn* for their catalytic January 2007 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal calling for renewed U.S. leadership on practical steps “toward a world free of nuclear weapons.”

*Christopher Hill, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs,* for negotiating and keeping on track the plan to implement the six-party agreement on the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

*Margaret Beckett, former U.K. Sec. of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs,* for her June 2007 speech calling for renewed action on key nuclear disarmament steps, including the CTBT, deeper nuclear reductions, and more, as a means to strengthen global nonproliferation efforts.

*Jan Neoral, the mayor of the Czech village of Trokavec,* whose residents voted 71 – 1 against deployment of a U.S. strategic missile defense radar in their town.

*Phil Goff, New Zealand’s Disarmament and Arms Control Minister,* for his leadership on a nonbinding UN resolution calling on nuclear-armed states to lessen the alert level of their deployed weapons, which won the support of 124 countries despite U.S., British, and French opposition.

*Lulzim Basha, Albanian Foreign Minister,* for helping his country become the first to verifiably destroy its chemical weapons stockpile as part of its commitments under the Chemical Weapons Convention.

*The Scottish Parliament* for their June 14 vote in opposition of the U.K. government’s replacement of the existent Trident nuclear-armed submarine system.

My ballot is secret.