Sharon Weinberger
Residence reporter, Omidyar Network
Sharon Weinberger is a writer and editor who focuses on the intersection of science, technology and national security. She is currently an Omidyar Reporter in Residence, and was previously the National Security and Foreign Policy Editor for The Wall Street Journal. Her fourth book, Valley of Death, about the Pentagon and Silicon Valley, will be published later this year. She has 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, New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Wired magazine, Nature, BBC, Discover, and Slate, among other publications.
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Weapons, war and confusion
How will Europe and the US build and pay for the arsenals of the future?
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06 May 2026
Weapons, war and confusion
How will Europe and the US build and pay for the arsenals of the future?