Sharon Weinberger

Biography

Sharon Weinberger is a national security reporter for The Intercept with a focus on science and technology issues. She just completed a forthcoming history of the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to be published by Knopf. Most recently, she was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. She has been a Knight Science Fellow at MIT, an International Report Project Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a Carnegie Fellow at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and an Alicia Patterson Fellow. Her writing on military science and technology has appeared regularly in Nature, BBC, Discover, Slate, Wired, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She is the author of Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon’s Scientific Underworld (2006).