He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for a book about the legacy of the nuclear arms race and in 2024 for articles on new technologies and the tactics authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent.
He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2010 for his second book, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Doubleday, 2009).
The Prize citation termed it "a well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind.
"[2] In 2015, Hoffman published The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal about the life of Adolf Tolkachev, who was arrested and executed for giving classified information to the CIA.
[3] In 2024, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of articles on new technologies and the tactics authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent.