Lawry began his presentation by saying that the idea for writing his book was suggested by Ms Kelly Cooper, Program Officer, Sea Platforms and Weapons Division, US Office of Naval Research, who said that it would be a shame to lose all the information which he had collected over the years. The book was developed as a sponsored project by the ONR, and ended up at twice the envisaged length at 888 pages in two volumes. The book is now available via the Amazon website.
