• Maria P. Vassileva on Chernobyl's resurrection

• Steve Featherstone on loose nukes in Ukraine

• Ed Ou on a nuclear test site in Kazakhstan

• Jason Motlagh on the Soviet hangover in Belarus

• Dimiter Kenarov on getting arrested by the KGB

• Nadia Shira Cohen on the return of the Aral Sea

• Fiction by Alan Heathcock, Kseniya Melnik, and Maggie Shipstead