What’s New
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Yesterday I culled images from my collection of Matador photos and selected fourteen, plus two of the German V2 (I seem not to have photographed the V1). Photoshopped those images and added them to the page. Trying a new plug-in for the images–should be much easier to use, especially if the reader is interested in the captions. Today I wrote the “Further Reading” section and added the NukeMap image and link plus filled in the specs. I still have to write an essay and the image captions.
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The Mark 8 page is up. This one was challenging in that there is a lack of material on this bomb. The only unit I encountered was at the Nuclear Museum so maybe it is just obscure. If you have additional sources (videos, online, articles, book references) please ping me.
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Finished the Mark 7 bomb page, except for the essay. Still in draft mode (i.e. non-public). Also made a few interface adjustments over the past few days in response to comments on my post about this site on Reddit/Nuclear Weapons. I’ve added a “breadcrumb” trail at the bottom and a “Home” menu at the top (the “American Nukes” logo serves the same purpose but is not an obviously clickable item).
Considering moving all photo cations to a separate page. As it is it is difficult to associate the caption with the correct image and the reader has to go back and forth again and again. If I go in that direction the new pad will feature a large photo with text beneath, and then the next photo and text beneath that, etc.
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Finished “Post-WWII Fat Man Bomb Design.” This page covers three bombs, the Mark IV, the Mark V, and the Mark VI. My thinking here is that these bombs are similar in design and all were designed during a period of uncertainty over nuclear weapons and thus it makes sense to group them together.
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Fat Man page is now live.
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Finished the essay and updated reading list. Posted Little Boy. Two pages down!
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Modified gallery/lightbox plug-ins to prevent easy downloading of images. Began updating Little Boy reading list.
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Reversed direction and converted all site images to SDR. HDR proved to have too many incompatibilities and partial incompatibilities at this time. Lightroom catalog is ready to convert all to HDR when the time is appropriate. Fixed Youtube video display so that it works on iPhone (before it would display only tiny “play button” icons). Adjusted minor formatting settings on Trinity page. The Trinity page will be used as the template for future weapons pages.
Later: Added a “Details” block under the photo gallery with a link back to the locations page. Used Trinity page as template for Little Boy page. Located and exported all Little Boy images from main Capture One library, and imported selected ones into Lightroom and processed. Replaced all photos in new page with Little Boy images. Updated Nukemap graphic with new link.
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Finalized v1.0 of Trinity page. Updated Youtube videos, replaced all images with HDR images, replaced Nukemap image with one centered on Trinity site, slightly edited short essay, adjusted formatting, and completed specs. Selected and adjusted final images. Set up image file system in Lightroom to prepare for processing images.
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Added solid draft of text and photos for “About this Site” and “About the Photographs.”