Nicholas Thompson is a senior editor at Wired Magazine, a contributing editor at Bloomberg Television, and the author of "The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War," which Henry Holt published in September 2009.

Prior to Wired, Mr. Thompson was a senior editor at Legal Affairs and an editor at the Washington Monthly. He has written about politics, technology, and the law for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York Observer, and many other publications. He is a panelists on CNN Connects with Becky Anderson and a regular guest on CNN's American Morning and NBC's Today Show. He has also appeared as a commentator on Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC¹s Live with Regis and Kelly and World News Tonight, CBS's Early Show and Evening News, and National Public Radio.

As a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation in 2002-03, Mr. Thompson wrote about the influence of open-source software as well as the ways that information technology was changing West Africa. He also frequently contributes to Wired's blogs on defense policy and the tech industry.