Sharon Weinberger has been writing on national security issues for more than twenty-five years. She was the National Security Editor at the Wall Street Journal from 2022 to 2026 and has also contributed to the New York Times, New York Magazine, and Washington Post, among other outlets. Also the author of The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency that Changed the World, A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry, and Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, MIT's Knight Science Journalism program, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She lives in Washington, DC.