Catalogue description Records of Scientific Research

Records of departments responsible for scientific research (with the exception of conventional weapons) within the ministry from its creation in 1947.

The papers of Sir Henry Tizard, Chairman of the Defence Research Policy Committee, are in DEFE 9, with the papers of R V Jones, Assistant Director of Air Intelligence, in DEFE 40.

Technical reports and memoranda from the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment and predecessors are in DEFE 15.

Papers relating to the Australian Royal Commission Into United Kingdom Nuclear Weapons Testing in Australia are in DEFE 16 and DEFE 19.

Registered files and papers of the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment are in DEFE 35.

Annual reports of Bureau West, later the Directorate of Central Computer Services, are in DEFE 36.

Operational Analysis Establishment files are in DEFE 48.

Registered files of the Atomic Registry are in DEFE 22.

Files relating to Concorde are in DEFE 54.

Microbiological weapons files are in DEFE 55.

Central tactics and trials files are in DEFE 56.

Reports and notes of the Operational Evaluation Group and Submarine Tactics and Weapons Group, and Joint Anti-Submarine School (JASS), are in DEFE 67.

Files and reports of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) are in DEFE 75.