“Nukes of Hazard”:http://nukesofhazard.blogspot.com/ is over at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation’s place. Jeff Lindemyer and Kyle Atwell are the two criminal minds behind the enterprise.

Check it out, it’s full o’ useful information. And I’m on their blogroll, which must mean it’s cool.

Export controls are a very important component of our nonproliferation policy that I do not find all that interesting to study. Fortunately, at least four other people are interested enough in it to start a blog about the subject.

I give you the “Export Law Blog,”:http://www.exportlawblog.com/ which is run by 4 people from Powell Goldstein LLP. Good stuff.

I don’t normally promote things on this blog, but I must make an exception in the case of Mess Up the Mess. They are a very good band whose CD release party is this Saturday night. You should all go.

Check them out “here”:http://messupthemess.com/.

Here’s the show info:

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Warehouse
1017-21 7th Street NW
Washington D.C.

Doors are at 9:30.

Dawn of Man and The Shondes are also playing.

Now get back to work.

Welcome to the inaugural post for TotalWonkerr.com. Jeffrey has kicked me out of the “_ACW.com_”:http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/ sandbox, but I think I’m allowed to play in it every so often.

In any case, my posting here will likely be much the same as it was over there. Apart from pursuing my primary goal of entertaining myself, I hope to amuse and inform others about issues related to arms control and nonproliferation.

I would be remiss if I didn’t thank two people. First, Greg at “hexive”:http://www.hexive.com/ for all of his work on this site.

Second, Jeffrey Lewis, who has graciously allowed me to defile his blog for a couple of years now. In fact, I have sent him a “gift”:http://www.jewelrygenius.com/aaNEWHTMLS/ROOSTER/rooster.html as a token of my gratitude.

I look forward to contributing to the level of public discourse in “much the same way”:http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/593/baker-spring-the-great-sophist-of-all-sophists he has.

Enjoy, everyone.

*update*

The items below are most of my past _ACW.com_ posts.

Two things:

ACA is hosting “an event”:http://www.armscontrol.org/events/20060919_NKPanel.asp 19 Sept. about the current North Korean nuclear situation.

Here’s the lineup:

Speakers:

Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa), Chairman of the House International Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs. First elected to Congress in 1976, Congressman Leach began his government service on the staff of then-Representative Donald Rumsfeld. Afterward, he became a Foreign Service Officer, during which time he worked at the former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

James A. Kelly, Senior Advisor and Distinguished Alumni at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). From 2001 through 2004, Kelly served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he was directly involved in talks with North Korea. His government career also included stints as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to President Ronald Reagan, Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council for Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (East Asia and the Pacific).

Daniel Poneman, Principal at The Scowcroft Group. Mr. Poneman is a former National Security Council (NSC) staff director. He first joined the NSC in 1990 as Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control and was then promoted to Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls from 1993 through 1996. Mr. Poneman is the author or co-author of several books, including Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis.

Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director of the Arms Control Association.

“Click this link”:http://www.armscontrol.org/events/20060919_NKPanel.asp if you wish to RSVP.

Even if you’re not attending that event, please take a minute to complete “this ACT survey”:http://survey.armscontrol.org/index.php?sid=3. It would be helpful.

Thanks.

The National Security Archive has released several more items of note during the past few weeks:

*1* A “collection of documents”:http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB189/index.htm regarding the Nixon administration’s attempts to grapple with the Israeli nuclear weapons program.

*2* A series of “documents”:http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB190/index.htm describing the controversy surrounding various interpretations of the Vela incident.

*3* “This series of documents”:http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB187/index.htm detailing US intelligence regarding India’s nuclear weapons program.

*4* A very large number of “diplomatic cables”:http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB188/index.htm, including then-Amb. Moynihan’s “thoughts regarding”:http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB188/AAD-3.pdf India’s 1974 nuclear test.

The Carnegie people were kind enough to ask Jeffrey and me to “blog”:http://www.carnegieendowment.org/static/npp/2005conference/blogs/paul_kerr.htm during their recent Nonproliferation Conference.

So my first ACW post in a while is to inform readers that I F’d up two posts. I’ve already notified the hard-working people at Carnegie, but thought I’d post the corrections here while they (I hope) are catching up on some well-deserved sleep after a really outstanding conference.

I don’t think either of these are serious errors, but in the interest of accuracy…

*Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe.* In the post I wrote about the first panel that NPR broadcasted yesterday, I “wrote”:http://www.carnegieendowment.org/static/npp/2005conference/blogs/paul_kerr.htm:

During the afternoon’s first NPR panel, Amb. Linton Brooks, Sen. Lugar, and former Sen. Nunn were asked why we still have tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

Brooks replied, “There may as well be” and spoke about the importance of nuclear weapons to NATO’s defense.

The substance of this was correct. But after listening to the broadcast again, I realized that I had misunderstood Brooks – he was saying that he might as well be the first person to answer the question.

I should have just said “Brooks spoke about the importance of nuclear weapons to NATO’s defense.”

*Bob Joseph’s Lunch Talk.* In a post about Robert Joseph’s speech during lunch (see, also, “Jeffrey’s post”:http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/850/bob-joseph-just-doesnt-get-it), I “wrote”:http://www.carnegieendowment.org/static/npp/2005conference/blogs/paul_kerr.htm:

Third, Joseph utterly ignored the fact that we will not have a verifiable strategic arms control treaty with Russia when START II expires in 2009. As far as I know, we have not made much headway in devising any verification measures for the Moscow Treaty. Not that it would matter all that much for a treaty that expires at the end of 2012.

But a senior colleague properly pointed out that START II does not exist … obviously, I meant START I.