Special Topics

What if the smartphone in your pocket was also a radiation detector?

By Andrew Longman, Ephraim Fischbach | Opinion, Special Topics

Thomas Pickering portrait

The potential for a new Iran agreement and the future of nuclear arms control: Interview with Thomas Pickering

By Dan Drollette Jr | Magazine, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

measles closeup

As measles outbreaks grow, the economic cost of anti-vaccine misinformation could become clearer

By Matt Field | Magazine, Science Denial, Special Topics

US Navy ship test-firing laser weapon

Plasma weapons and deterrence in the age of emerging military technologies

By Mohammad Eslami | Disruptive Technologies, Magazine, Special Topics

Ukrainian tanks on a military exercise

At the brink: How Moscow’s ‘dirty bomb’ disinformation campaign risked a NATO-Russia war in October 2022

By Polina Sinovets | Magazine, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

smallpox vaccination satire of 1802

How to counter health misinformation when it’s coming from the top

By Lisa Fazio | Analysis, Magazine, Science Denial, Special Topics

War in Iran: Views from the ground

By Thomas Gaulkin | Multimedia, Multimedia, Special Topics

spinning top under high-speed photography

And the winners of our fiction contest are…

By John Mecklin | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Satire, Special Topics

snipers in camouflage

A Modest Briefing

By Robert Levinson | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Satire, Special Topics

the War Room in the movie Dr Strangelove

Countdown

By Alex Dabertin | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Seminole leader Osceola in 1838, painted by George Catlin

On Behalf of Lake Owakeela

By Elaine Midcoh | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Edward Hopper painting of Victorian house

When the Land Runs Out

By Cynthia Walker | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Special Topics