I struck my own little blow in the war on the spread of weapons technology today.

The little tiny part of the big company that I work for was in the process of being divested.

Our products have many civilian applications, however, they also have military, nuclear and missile technology applications. They are among what is commonly called dual-use technology. However, the big company's executives neglected to take the export status of our product line into account when they accepted a bid to sell our company to some folks from India.

I drafted, as Wesley Dabney would put it, "A flaming bag of shit" that my boss sent to corporate counsel putting them on notice that it might not be a good idea to transfer export controlled technology to foreign nationals hailing from a country which is actively pursuing the development of bigger nukes and longer range missiles.

My boss struck an even bigger blow when he rolled the dice on his own career by putting federales, from all applicable alphabet soup agencies, on notice of this impending transaction.

Sorry for the lack of details, but mostly I just want this placeholder post to serve as a marker of what happened, should anyone in the future doubt my involvement in this mess. Also, I want to blog about the excellent response from the federales, to what could have been a technological disaster.

Want more info, check out some units of the U.S. government that work to protect us against wrongful technology transfer.

• The Exon-Florio Provision and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFISU)
• Bureau of Industy and Security's Export Enforcement [Also see their "redflags for suspicious transactions".)

[My worrying over, and working upon this mattter for the past few days explains my recent limited, and very late posting.]