John J. Geoghegan

John J. Geoghegan specializes in reporting on unusual inventions that fail in the commercial marketplace despite their innovative nature. He coined the term, "white elephant technologies," to describe these inventions and writes a weekly column for the "Huffington Post" about them. Mr. Geoghegan also writes for the "New York Times" Science section, WIRED, "Smithsonian Air & Space," "Popular Science," "Sail," and the "San Francisco Chronicle" Sunday Magazine among other publications.

Mr. Geoghegan is also author of, “Operation Storm: Japan’s Top Secret Submarines and Their Plan to Change the Course of WWII,” a non fiction book to be published by Crown in March 2013. "Operation Storm" tells the true (but little known) story of a squadron of underwater aircraft carriers purpose-built by Japan to launch a surprise attack against New York City and Washington, DC as a follow up to Pearl Harbor.

"OpStorm" grew out of a cover story Mr. Geoghegan wrote about Japan's I-400 subs for "Aviation History" magazine. His article also served as the basis for the PBS documentary, "Japanese SuperSub," on which Mr. Geoghegan served as Technical Consultant and writer. The "New York Times called "Japanese SuperSub “consistently...fascinating history.” The program was produced by PBS-TV, National Geographic International, and Britain’s Channel Five, and continues to be rebroadcast in the U.S., Great Britain, Europe and Japan.

Mr. Geoghegan began his career as a Special Correspondent for the "New York Times," and worked in "Connecticut" magazine's editorial department where he wrote about the state's aerospace and defense industries. He currently lives in northern California and serves as Executive Director of The SILOE Research Institute's Archival Division.