About the Author

Sharon Weinberger is the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the author of Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War. Her previous books include The Imagineers of War, A Nuclear Family Vacation and Imaginary Weapons. She was the National Security Editor of the Wall Street Journal from 2022 to 2026.  She was a 2026 Omidyar Network reporter-in-residence and has also held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, MIT’s Knight Science Journalism program, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Nature, New York Magazine, WIRED, and the Washington Post, among other publications.

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Washington, D.C.