American Nukes

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What’s New

  • Added the weapons page on the Mark 39 bomb.

  • Added Photos page (and main menu item) to share all of the photographs on a single page.

    Added the Smyth Report to the Further Reading section of the Fat Man page which I had somehow not listed before–a surprising oversight.

  • Added Support page, with menu in header.

    (Temporarily) removed FAQ page from menu in header until I can add finished content.

  • Added page “10 Best Non-Fiction Books On Nuclear Weapons” available via the Resources Menu.

    Moved link for “Where to See Nuclear Weapons” from body text to title text “Nuclear Tourism” available via Resources page.

    Added link to NukeMaps on the Resources page.

  • Added e-mail sign-up to the Home page.

    Discovered an error on the Fat Man page. The replica at the Historic Wendell Airfield was not made by John Coster-Mullen but by NewRuleFX, a movie prop company in California. Corrected the caption for that image in the Fat Man gallery. Corrected text in the Further Reading section of the Fat Man page. Added text referencing the page at NewRuleFX describing the Fat Man project.

    Discovered new information about Coster-Mullens’ Little Boy replica while looking into the Fat Man error. Added text about the replica’s signatures to the Wendell Little Boy image. Added an item about the signatures to Little Boy’s Further Reading section.

  • The page for the Mark 36 bomb is published.

    Fixed an embarrassing spelling typo on the Home page that has been there for weeks, ugh.

  • Added Travis AFB Aviation Museum to “Where to See Nuclear Weapons” page.

    Added captions to Travis AFB Aviation Museum images that were added yesterday.

  • Updated the Regulus page (in the Further Reading section and the photo captions) to remove language that said or suggested that there was a designated “Regulus class” of submarines. There was not. (Thanks to Reddit user Derick1963 for pointing this out to me.)

    I visited the Travis AFB Aviation Museum over the weekend and have added images to the following galleries from that trip: Fat Man, Mark 7, Genie, and Nike-Hercules. Captions to follow.

    Removed the decorative border around the “What’s New” section on the Home page.

  • Mark 17 thermonuclear bomb added.

  • • Published the weapons page on Bomarc, a continental defense anti-aircraft missile.