ABOUT NOAH SHACHTMAN

Noah Shachtman is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, and the editor of its national security blog, "Danger Room," which won the 2007 Online Journalism Award for best beat reporting. He writes about technology, national security, politics, and geek culture for The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and others. Since 1998, he's been reporting for Wired News and Wired magazine – defusing roadside explosives with a Baghdad bomb squad, sneaking into the Los Alamos nuclear lab, chasing down suspects on Chicago's West Side, investigating a triple-homicide in Tacoma, WA, and undergoing experiments by Pentagon-funded scientists at Stanford. Shachtman has also written articles for The Village Voice, Slate, Salon, Esquire, Popular Science, The New York Post, Popular Mechanics, The American Prospect Online, The Forward, The New York Times Magazine, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He's been interviewed by the Associated Press, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS radio, NPR, BBC radio -- as well as by newspapers, radio programs, and television stations across the country. Before turning to journalism, Shachtman worked as a professional bass player, book editor, and campaign staffer on Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. He lives in New York City and Venice Beach, California with his wife, Elizabeth.
 
His recent articles include:

NEW YORK TIMES
A New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum
Sci-Fi Fans' Alternate Reality
Grammar for Spies
Cameras That Never Forget a Face
NASA Wants Tinkerers
Cellphones' Clues Fight Crime
Digital Dog Tags Say Friend or Foe
Exoskeleton Strength
Amateur Sleuths Dig Deeper
Airplanes' Laser Beam Boost
Election Race? Check Out This Bike
Flying Solo, in the Extreme
A War of Robots, All Chattering on the Western Front

WIRED MAGAZINE How Technology Almost Lost the War Be More Than You Can Be The MySpace Murders The Baghdad Bomb Squad Raising the Dead Attack of the Drones Spycam Force WIRED NEWS Army Social Scientists' New Enemies Noah Shachtman's Iraq Diary Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs Brass, Not Bloggers, Breach Security Pentagon PCs Bend to Your Brain Drone School, a Ground's-Eye View Improvised Bombs Baffle Army Army Wages War on Modern Menaces Robot Grunts Report for Duty All's Fair in Space War Los Alamos Halts Operations GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin Revenge of the Killer Drones U.S. Uranium Stock in Peril Secrecy Suddenly a Campaign Issue Moon Base: NASA's Recurring Dream Flying Saucer May Yet Take Flight Spies Attack White House Secrecy JetBlue Customers Feel the Pain An Army Travels on Its Stomach Los Alamos Clears Fraud Suspect A Spy Machine of DARPA's Dreams Peacenik Toils for the Pentagon Gussied Up Patriots Debut in Iraq Taking Aim at Military Technology Lab Lawyer 'Last Man Standing' Nuke Lab Can't Keep Snoops Out NASA: Nukes to Power Spacecraft Los Alamos: Nuke Storage Snafu Head of Embattled Lab Bows Out War Dilemma: Iraq Weapon Disposal How Bad Can a 'Dirty Bomb' Be? Shoot 'Em Up and Join the Army A Room With an Apocalyptic View After Bullets Fly: War of Words

CHICAGO TRIBUNE U.S. Troops' "Non-Lethal" Weaponry Political Protesters Hear Call Blimps are Back Biometrics in Touchy Times VILLAGE VOICE Big Brother Gets a Brain THE FORWARD Welcoming the Sabbath, with Pistols POPULAR SCIENCE Attack at the Speed of Light Winning - and Losing - the First Wired War Big Brother 101 SLATE The Federal Bureau of Luddites POPULAR MECHANICS Global Strike: The Pentagon's Plan to Hit Anywhere on Earth, in an Hour Why Soldiers Hate Their New Gear D.I.Y. Satellite Hackers The Great Weapons Debate (click here for a complete list) TECH CENTRAL STATION Bigger Worries Than BioChem Hired Guns Aim for Africa WMD: Smoke, No Fire Web Wide War Hi-Tech vs Low-Tech Threats (click here for a complete list) SALON The Homeless Blogger THE AMERICAN PROSPECT ONLINE Liberty Island

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