Sharon Weinberger at the Cambridge Public Library

Thursday, October 15, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Cambridge Public Library — 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

RSVP is required for this event. Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Sharon Weinberger —veteran national security correspondent , and former National Security Editor at The Wall Street Journal from 2022 to 2026—for a discussion of her new book, Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War . She will be joined in conversation by Sam Fellman —US Navy veteran with 17 years of journalism experience covering military affairs, currently studying disruptions in military technology and the civil-military order as a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT. 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 The 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…