Further work on the essay for Honest John. Redesigned the main page–hopefully, more attractive and easier to navigate.

The page for the Corporal missile is up. That’s the eighth weapons page–so many more to go! But still, good progress. Next up is, I think, the Honest John rocket. I’ve already put together a few ideas for the essay in my head this morning while I was in the shower…

Today I selected/photoshopped the images for the Corporal missile and built all of the web page except for the essay. I was about to go to bed (it’s after midnight as I write this) but then had an idea for a note or two to leave myself that I would read in the morning on…

The page on the Matador is up. I used the new gallery with captions built-in and I think that is working out well. I’ll await more public feedback before I convert the older pages to the gallery system. For the essay, I tried (after reading the Joanna Stern article in the Wall Street Journal on…

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 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.

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…

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.

Fat Man page is now live.

Finished the essay and updated reading list. Posted Little Boy. Two pages down!