French naval engineer and military strategist, Camille Rougeron (1893–1980) graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1911. After a career as a naval engineer at the Brest and Lorient arsenals and the Naval Artillery Studies Commission, he devoted himself from the 1920s to strategic analysis of new weapons technologies. The author of nearly 2,000 articles published between 1927 and 1979, notably in Science et Vie (1940–1970), he was one of the first French writers to analyse the military implications of rockets, nuclear weapons, and astronautics. His books include L'Aviation de bombardement (1936), La Prochaine Guerre (1948), and Les Applications de l'énergie atomique (1955). Co-editor and co-author of Fusées et Astronautique (1965), he contributed the chapters on intercontinental ballistic missiles, anti-missile systems, and nuclear strategy.