Proceedings from the British Rocket Oral History Programme Conferences at Charterhouse: Prospero - the Journal of British Rocketry and Nuclear History Nos.1-2 (2 vols).

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'Surface-to-Air Guided Weapons for UK Air Defence in the 1950s', a glossary of British nuclear weapon programmes, the Chevaline programme, Blue Envoy, Skylark, the involvement of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) in nuclear weapons (including Blue Danube, Red Beard, Yellow Sun, Blue Steel, Blue Water, Blue Streak, Skybolt, WE 177 and Polaris), the origins of Blue Streak, the evolution of Polaris and the history of spacecraft electric propulsion are among the subjects discussed.

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