Nick Cook is an award-winning aerospace and defence journalist and author with a career in writing spanning more than 20 years.
From 1987 to 2001, he was Aerospace Editor of Jane’s Defence Weekly, the world’s leading international defence journal. He is currently the magazine’s Aerospace Consultant. In 2005, Nick created JDW’s highly-acclaimed Technology Audit Series – individual profiles benchmarking the science and technology of the world’s aerospace and defence giants.
Today, his credentials gain him access to the world’s leading defence establishments. During his career, he has visited numerous top secret military bases in the US and former Soviet Union.
Nick Cook’s groundbreaking, exclusive stories for Jane’s have included reports on Russian secret weapons and a second classified operation to rescue US hostages in Iran. All made headlines around the world.
He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal and writes extensively for other national and international media.
A respected commentator on defence and security issues, his views and analysis were sought by UK, US and other world news media during the 1991 and 2003 wars against Iraq and major conflicts in between.
Cook is routinely invited to speak around the world on a variety of topics from the future of aerospace and defence technology to global energy and science issues, including those highlighted in his book The Hunt for Zero Point. His audiences include major aerospace corporations, government think-tanks, schools and universities.
Cook’s television credits include a two-hour documentary, written and presented by him for The Discovery/Learning Channel, called Billion Dollar Secret which detailed for the first time the secret inner workings of America’s classified weapons establishment.
Nick Cook is a four-time winner of the prestigious Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award in the Defence, Business, Propulsion and Technology categories.
Nick Cook is also a published author and documentary film-maker. His ground-breaking book The Hunt For Zero Point, published by Century Random House in the UK in 2001 and Broadway Books in the US in 2002, details his ten-year investigation into efforts to crack the Holy Grail of aerospace propulsion: anti-gravity technology. The book reached No.1 in the Amazon.com non-fiction chart and no.3 on the general list. Other works by Cook include: Angel Archangel and Aggressor and a number of ghost written books including The Sunday Times Bestseller Sabre Squadron. Recently co-authored Barefoot Soldier, the biography of L/Cpl
Johnson Beharry VC, published in hardback in Oct '06, paperback due out May '07.
Cook has a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Exeter University. He is married with two children and divides his time between London and Sussex.
