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Articles Written by: SHARON WEINBERGER
Who is This?
Sharon Weinberger is an American writer on security issues. She now writes for Wired's national security blog, Danger Room. She was editor-in-chief of Defense Technology International, a monthly magazine published by the McGraw Hill Aviation Week Group. She has written on science and technology policy for periodicals such as Slate and the Washington Post Magazine. Her first book, Imaginary Weapons, describes a dispute over a weapons concept based on nuclear isomers.
Airborne sensors that can spot stones being moved near a road, lightning guns that zap explosives, and jammers that disrupt signals used to detonate bombs. The Pentagon has tested just about every technology imaginable against improvised explosive ...
From SHARON WEINBERGER,
New York Post,
25 Oct 2009
The United States has spent $807.2 million on the purchase of Russian-made Mi-17s. Prior to this acquisition, no requirements were defined, no analysis of alternatives was completed, and no other airframes were considered. Of even further concern, ...
From SHARON WEINBERGER,
Wired,
22 Oct 2009
Two years ago, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, issued a strange invitation: Come to Tehran! See the sights! Tour our nuclear facilities! In February of 2007, I was part of this first group of "nuclear tourists" promised that we'd be allowed to ...
From SHARON WEINBERGER,
New York Post,
27 Sep 2009
The creation of a cyborg insect army has just taken a step closer to reality. A research team at the University of California Berkeley recently announced that it has successfully implanted electrodes into a beetle allowing scientists to control the ...
From SHARON WEINBERGER,
Wired,
24 Sep 2009
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From SHARON WEINBERGER,
Wired,
20 Sep 2009
“Since the advent of the space-age over five decades ago, more than thirty-five thousand man-made objects have been cataloged by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network,” the agency notes. “Nearly twenty-thousand of those objects remain in orbit today, ...
From SHARON WEINBERGER,
Wired,
18 Sep 2009
John Reece Roth never thought he’d be going to prison for his research on plasma physics. But that’s precisely where the 72-year old University of Tennessee professor will likely spend the next four years.
Roth was sentenced last month for sharing his ...
From SHARON WEINBERGER,
Wired,
17 Sep 2009
Concerns over prosecution have even led some academics to self-censor when teaching, particularly in the area of satellites, which have been under the control of the state department since 1999. That shift, which was prompted by a satellite ...
From SHARON WEINBERGER,
Wired,
17 Sep 2009
No one should be surprised that people find Garlasco’s hobby creepy. Nazi gear is a well-known taboo, banned in Germany, and even frowned upon in some cases by World War II reenactors (a dealer and enthusiast once told me that reenactors are allowed to ...
From SHARON WEINBERGER,
Wired,
16 Sep 2009
It’s one giant step for robots on the battlefield. Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico has just released video of its leaping robot in action, showing the Precision Urban Hopper clearing a tall metal fence.
Funded by the Defense Advanced ...
From SHARON WEINBERGER,
Wired,
15 Sep 2009
