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Seven decades after Hiroshima, is there still a nuclear taboo?
Moral inhibitions and practical hurdles have played a role in avoiding nuclear war. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll continue to do so.
The experts assess the Iran agreement of 2015
Top experts assess an historic agreement
Should nuclear devices be used to stop asteroids?
The pros and cons of maintaining a stockpile to defend against near-earth objects
The next epidemic, brought to you by the US government
Why is the Department of Homeland Security moving dangerous animal disease research to America’s agricultural heartland?
The New York Times was wrong; Russian uranium deals don’t threaten world supply security.
Why the Russian government has and will continue to have little control over the world uranium market
American violence from Ferguson to Fallujah
A militarized United States ignores the laws of war abroad, while at home disregarding the old rules of policing
The pathological legacy of the Oklahoma City bombing
Why the risk of more Timothy McVeighs persists
Deterrence, without nuclear winter
Small nuclear arsenals or non-nuclear weapons could allow countries to deter adversaries without risking total global catastrophe
A message from Tripoli: How Libya gave up its WMD
The first installment of a five-part series exploring the diplomacy and intelligence efforts that led Libya and its quixotic leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi, to relinquish that country's weapons of mass destruction
Flashpoint in the South China Sea
China is not only staking out turf in this easily overlooked region. It is even creating the turf, from scratch.
The very small Islamic State WMD threat
Fears that terrorists could get and use nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons are overblown
In Malaysia Airlines tragedy, echoes of a US act
When a US warship shot down a civilian airliner in 1988, killing 290 people, American leaders defended the deed
The evidence that shows Iron Dome is not working
Close study of photographic and video imagery of Israeli Iron Dome defense inceptors engaging with Hamas rockets—both in the current conflict and in the 2012 hostilities—shows that the Israeli rocket-defense system's success rate has been very low—as low as 5 percent or, perhaps, even less.
Iron Dome: the public relations weapon
Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense system is high-tech. So is the PR campaign around it.
ISIS: The unsurprising surprise that is sweeping Iraq
The success of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham is no shock to those who have monitored the capable, well-financed group as it seeks an Islamic caliphate
The promise of the Syrian chemical weapons plan
The Russia-US deal to eliminate Damascus’ stockpile has achieved a great deal—far more than the alternative would have accomplished