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Black Arrow: British rocket science and the Cold War
www.fathom.com/course/21701717/index.html
Fascinating six-session online seminar from London's Science Museum (where you can also see the X4 satellite that was never launched, due to the cancellation of Black Arrow).

Thunder & Lightnings
www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/contents.html
Detailed and in-depth resource for all three of the V-bombers, with histories, memoirs and many photographs.

Britain's Nuclear Weapons
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Uk/index.html
A comprehensive reference site detailing the development of nuclear weapons by Britain and other world powers.

Royal Air Force Museum
www.rafmuseum.org.uk/index.cfm
This website details the RAF's national collections at Cosford (Shropshire) and in London, where a Vulcan and a Valiant bomber can be seen.

Museum of Flight
www.nms.ac.uk/flight/index.asp
Part of the National Museums of Scotland, the Museum of Flight outside Edinburgh has Blue Streak and Black Knight missiles in its collection. For more information, see the Rockets & missiles section of the website.

European Space Agency
www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html
The website of the agency through which all British extraterrestrial efforts (via the British National Space Centre) are now directed.

Protect and Survive
www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/main.htm
An electronic version of the government information leaflet that was distributed to homes throughout the UK in the 1980s.

When the Wind Blows
www.badmovieplanet.com/unknownmovies/
reviews/rev342.html
Review of the animated film based on Raymond Briggs' graphic novel of 1982, which was his very personal response to the British government's Protect and Survive leaflet (see above).

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