ABOUT NOAH SHACHTMAN
 Noah Shachtman is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, and the editor of its national security blog, "Danger Room," He's reported from Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, the Pentagon, Los Alamos, and from military bases around the country. He's written about technology and national security for The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Salon, Esquire, Popular Science, The New York Post, Foreign Policy, Popular Mechanics, The American Prospect Online, The Forward, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, among others.
He's spoken before audiences at West Point, the Army Command and General Staff College, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, the Air Force Cyber Symposium, and National Defense University. The offices of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, and the Director of National Intelligence have all asked him to contribute to discussions on cyber security, information operations, and emerging threats. The Associated Press, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, PBS, and NPR have looked to him to provide insight on military developments.
In 2003, Shachtman founded DefenseTech.org, which quickly emerged as one of the web's leading resources on military hardware and software. The site was later sold to Military.com. During his tenure at Wired, he's reported from an undisclosed air base in "Southwest Asia," embedded with Marines in the heart of Afghanistan's opium country, defused roadside explosives with a Baghdad bomb squad, snuck into the Los Alamos nuclear lab, chased down suspects on Chicago's West Side, investigated a triple-homicide in Tacoma, WA, and undergone experiments by Pentagon-funded scientists at Stanford. Advertising Age named Wired the "magazine of the decade." Wired.com won the Magazine Publishers' Association award for "website of the year." Shachtman's Danger Room blog took home the Online Journalism Award for best beat reporting in 2007.
Before turning to journalism, Shachtman worked as a professional bass player, book editor, and campaign staffer on Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. A graduate of Georgetown University and a former student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Shachtman lives in New York City 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
CONTACT: noah.shachtman-AT-gmail-DOT-com
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