As you can see, we have a spiffy new website, thanks to Greg at hexive and the Ploughshares Fund. (I also want to add a special note of thanks for Derek de Jong, aka Stratwonk, for many many hours of effort.)
Although the visual changes are the most obvious — is the nuclear bomb effects computer awesome or what? — the changes behind the curtain are most impressive to me. We’ve moved to a nested model where contributors have their own blogs. So if you loathe me, but love Josh Pollack, you can just follow him at pollack.armscontrolwonk.com.
The main site, Arms Control Wonk.com, will serve as a global aggregator for the entire family of ACW blogs, as well as my own idiosyncratic musings. This should allow us to bring you a lot more content from a lot more voices, without becoming a cacaphony. And did I mention it looks good?
The launch has been somewhat delayed and we are still trying to figure out how this new model is going to work in practice. So you will probably seem some subtle design changes and other hiccups for a few weeks, until we hit our stride.
This is the third version of Arms Control Wonk. With the last major relaunch of the site, I wrote a tiny manifesto in an explicit attempt to offer a post hoc rationalization for the existence of this thing of ours. I may do that again, but before putting fingers to keys, I invite your comments about what you, dear readers, hope for and expect from this site in the months and years ahead.
And, as always, thanks for reading.